To establish the new “Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act”, in order to allow the state minimum wage in Puerto Rico to prevail over the federal minimum wage the higher it is; create the Minimum Wage Evaluation Board attached to the Department of Labor and Human Resources, to establish its powers and composition; to provide protection for workers in local companies not covered by the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; to establish everything related to vacation and sick leave ; empower the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources to implement this Act; repeal Act 180-1998, as amended; and for other related purposes.
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P. of S. 852
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P. of C. No. 1935
Dates: September 17, 2014
To amend Article 10 of Act No. 15 of April 14, 1931, as amended, known as the “Organic Law of the Department of Labor and Human Resources”, to include the measurement of food safety in the surveys carried out by the Bureau of Statistics; and for other related purposes.
P. of S. No. 708
Date: March 3, 2014
To amend Article 2; add new sub-paragraphs (l), (m), (n) and (o) to paragraph (d) and to amend paragraph (e) of Article 3; and to amend Article 6 of Act No. 199? 2010, known as the “Demographic Challenge Act”, for the purpose of including the Office of the Attorney for the Elderly, the Office of Management and Budget and the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico among the governmental and private entities that make up the Multisectorial and Multidisciplinary Committee for government, academia and private enterprise; and for other purposes.
R. of C. 1205
Date: January 19, 2016
To order the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Anti-Monopoly Practices, and the Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to carry out an exhaustive investigation to evaluate the costs, rates and conditions proposed and imposed by shipping companies that offer haulage services for importing food into Puerto Rico.
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