2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART III - Social Security (§§ 611 — 726f) › Chapter 47 - Employment Security Act (§§ 701 — 717) › § 715 - Reciprocal arrangements

(a) Interstate benefit payments.— The Secretary is authorized to enter into or cooperate in arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under this chapter, and facilities and services provided under the employment security act of any state may be utilized for the making of claims and the payment of benefits under this chapter or under the employment security act of such state.
(b) Combining of wage credits.— The Secretary shall participate in reciprocal arrangements with the appropriate and duly authorized agency of any state for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual’s wages and employment covered under this chapter with his wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of other states which are approved by the United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies, as reasonably calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such situations and which include provisions for:
(1) Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual’s wages and employment laws, and
(2) avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining.
Reimbursements paid from the Unemployment Fund pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed to be benefits for the purposes of this chapter.
(c) Reciprocal coverage under the law.— The Secretary is hereby authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with the appropriate and duly authorized agency of any state or of the federal government, or both, whereby, notwithstanding the provisions of § 705(k) of this title:
(1) Service performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which service is customarily performed by such individual in more than one jurisdiction shall be deemed to be service performed entirely within any one of the jurisdictions in which:
(A) Any part of such individual’s service is performed, or
(B) such individual has his residence, or
(C) the employing unit maintains a place of business; provided, there is in effect, as to such service, an approval election by an employing unit with the acquiescence of such individual, by virtue of which service performed by such individual for such employing unit is deemed to be performed entirely within such jurisdiction, and
(2) service performed by one or more individuals on any portion of a day for a single employing unit which customarily operates in more than one jurisdiction shall be deemed to be service performed entirely within the jurisdiction in which such employing unit maintains the headquarters of its business; provided, there is in effect, as to such service, an approved voluntary election by an employing unit with the affirmative consent of each such individual, by virtue of which service performed by such employing unit is deemed to be performed entirely within such jurisdiction.
(d) Revision of reciprocal arrangements.— If after entering into an arrangement under subsections (a), (b), or (c) of this section, the Secretary finds that the employment security act of any state or of the federal government participating in such arrangement has been changed in a material respect, the Secretary shall make a new finding as to whether such arrangement shall be continued with such state or with the federal government.
History —June 21, 1956, No. 74, p. 328, § 15, renumbered as § 16 on Dec. 22, 1960, No. 1, p. 1, § 13; June 24, 1971, No. 85, p. 257, § 10; June 15, 1972, No. 16, p. 374, § 12.