All posts tagged "labor reform"

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  Union leader vows challenge of labor reform in court

  SAN JUAN – Luis Pedraza Leduc, union leader and president of the Irrigation & Electrical Workers Union (Utier by its Spanish acronym), said a coalition of unions is planning to challenge the constitutionality of the recently enacted...

  • Posted March 23, 2017
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  El San Juan Hotel Workers picket while governor attends its inauguration ceremony

  CAROLINA – Dozens of employees of the El San Juan Hotel in Isla Verde have been protesting across its entrance since early Thursday demanding that it new administration respect their collective-bargaining agreement. The Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Gastronómica, Unite...

  • Posted February 16, 2017
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  Hundreds of Workers Protest Against Labor Reform

  The mass demonstration took place while the administration convened with the fiscal board

  • Posted February 9, 2017
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  Labor Secretary Defends Closure Act Derogation

  Affirms it limited Puerto Rico's economic development

  • Posted February 5, 2017
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  Local Companies Reduce Wages After Adopting Labor Reform

  Rep. Manuel Natal published the companies' letters announcing salary reductions

  • Posted February 5, 2017
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  Unions Organize Mass Protest Against Labor Reform

  SAN JUAN – Several unions representing Puerto Rico’s public sector are organizing a massive protest for Feb. 9, as stated in a bulletin spread through social media. The bulletin specified it is a “general strike” to oppose the...

  • Posted February 2, 2017
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  Hanes to close operations in Camuy, affecting over 100 employees

  PDP rep. suspects labor reform responsible

  • Posted February 2, 2017
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  Rosselló bets on women to change Puerto Rico

  SAN JUAN – Gov. Ricardo Rosselló reiterated Wednesday that it is time to make changes in Puerto Rico, and to make it possible he is relying on a large group of women who hold key positions in his administration and...

  • Posted February 2, 2017
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  Domino’s Puerto Rico adopts ‘successor employer’

  SAN JUAN – Labor & Human Resources Secretary Carlos Saavedra Gutiérrez said Monday that some of his agency’s officials will hold talks with Domino’s Pizza representatives to ensure that its workers’ rights aren’t infringed during the corporation’s internal...

  • Posted January 30, 2017
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  Justice says labor reform doesn’t affect employees in unjustified dismissals

  SAN JUAN – Although the labor reform signed into law Thursday by Gov. Ricardo Rosselló does not include language specifying that the burden of proof in unjustified dismissals falls on the employer, that was the intention of...

  • Posted January 26, 2017