vlog BOLETIN LABORAL – Robert Alex Fleming

Puerto Rico provides disability benefits to workers for non-work related disabilities under SINOT law (stands for ‘Non Occupational Temporary Disability Insurance’);  up to 26 weeks.  The salary of the worker determines the  rate. The minimum weekly rate is $12.00 and the maximum  is $113.00. If the disability is later determined to be work related, the worker will receive worker’s compensation benefits from the CFSE (Puerto Rico’s  public corporation that administers worker’ compensation) . Employers can…

The FSLA permits the employment of persons between the ages sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) only in occupations that the Secretary of Labor does not declare to be hazardous or detrimental to the health of children. Children between the ages of 14 and 16 are permitted to work (1) in occupations other than manufacturing and mining that are not oppressive child labor (i.e., that do not interfere with the child’s education, health, or well being);…