Empresas que tiene programas de detección de sustancias controladas en el lugar de trabajo deben saber que no pueden utilizar en el proceso muestras de cabello porque viola la ley Núm. 59-1997, 29 L.P.R.A. sec. 161 et seq. En el caso Orlando Ortiz v. Holsum, 2014 TSPR 35, el patrono despidió a un empleado que había dado positivo por segunda ocasión utilizando una muestra de cabello cuando no logró obtener un resultado válido con una…
Federal regulations require that employers keep all personnel or employment records for one year. Thus, if an employee is involuntarily terminated, his/her personnel records must be retained for one year from the date of termination. Furthermore, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) notifies an employer of a charge of discrimination, the company has the duty to preserve all records related to the matters under investigation. Failure to comply with this duty can have serious…
Employment at will is the doctrine that allows an employer in the United States to terminate an employee at any time, without notice and without cause, so long as it is not prohibited by a particular law (e.g. discriminatory reasons such as age, sex or race). Puerto Rico employment laws are different. Local law 80 (wrongful discharge/termination) modifies this doctrine by including a statutory penalty in the form of a severance payment to the employee….
Puerto Rico’s Act No. 115, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 29, § 194a, prohibits retaliation against certain defined whistleblowers, namely, against employees who provide testimony “before a legislative, administrative or judicial forum”. This broad purpose has served claimants to file a wide variety of lawsuits under numerous circumstances including attempts to bolster simple wrongful discharge claims. The statute at issue, provides in relevant part that: “No employer may discharge, threaten, or discriminate against an employee regarding…
En abril 8 del 2013, se presentó una demanda en el tribunal federal del distrito de Puerto Rico contra la Policía de Puerto Rico y seis oficiales. El demandante es un policía que alega ser ateo y que fue hostigado y rebajado de puesto luego que rehusara participar en oraciones cristianas que eran parte de las reuniones de un comandante. La demanda alega que la Primera enmienda de la constitución de los Estados Unidos las…
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