How to apply for SINOT temporary disability in Puerto Rico
Non-occupational disability insurance: requirements, form SI-1, how much it pays and for how long.
August 13, 2026
Work & Unemployment
Unemployment, worker rights and Department of Labor procedures.
106 guides
Chauffeurs’ Social Security: what the 50¢ deduction is and what it gives you
Not just for taxi drivers. It covers anyone who drives as part of their job, and pays sickness, disability, retirement and death benefits.
August 13, 2026
Employment discrimination: how to file with the Anti-Discrimination Unit
Which grounds the Labour Department’s UAD covers, where to file, and why mediation and litigation are free of charge.
August 13, 2026
Registered Mechanic (MR) licence: weights and measures, not cars
It is DACO’s licence to repair weighing and measuring instruments. $75, expires in a year, and 30 days after expiry you start over.
August 14, 2026
What to do if you are injured at work in Puerto Rico
The CFSE-373 form, the five days to file with the Fondo, and what to do if your employer will not fill it out.
August 13, 2026
What to do if your employer will not report your work accident
The Voluntary Report and the CFSE-450.1 sworn statement: how to file without your employer’s signature.
August 13, 2026
What the Fondo pays you while you are on work leave
Transitory disability compensation, how it is paid, and why the CFSE publishes two different figures.
August 13, 2026
Your employer must hold your job while you are on workers’ compensation
The Article 5A job reservation: the 360 days, the four conditions, and the 15 days after discharge.
August 13, 2026
How to appeal a Fondo decision to the Industrial Commission
The 30 days, what can be appealed, and why the appeal is not filed with the CFSE.
August 13, 2026
How to report unemployment insurance fraud
The complaint to the Employment Security Bureau, and why you can file it without giving your name.
August 13, 2026
How to apply for unemployment insurance in Puerto Rico
What unemployment insurance is, who can apply, what documents are usually requested, and how to reach DTRH’s official claimant portal.
August 12, 2026
Maternity leave in the private sector: 8 weeks at full pay
What Act 3 of 1942 provides: 4 weeks before and 4 after childbirth at full pay, options to shift them, adoption leave, and protection against dismissal.
August 16, 2026
Your breastfeeding rights: at work and in any public place
The 2025 Lactation Code made plain: a paid hour per shift to breastfeed or express milk, for at least 12 months, and the right to nurse wherever you are.
August 16, 2026
The Christmas bonus: who is entitled, how much it is, and what happens if unpaid
Act 148’s private-sector Christmas bonus: the hours you must work, the two formulas by hire date, the payment window and the penalties.
August 16, 2026
Vacation and sick leave: how many days you accrue and how they are used
Act 180-1998 made plain: the 130-hour monthly trigger, the vacation accrual ladder, the monthly sick day, and what you are owed when you leave.
August 16, 2026
Overtime, the workday and the meal period: what you must be paid
Act 379: the 8-hour day and 40-hour week, overtime at time and a half (pre-2017 hires keep more), and the premium for working through the meal period.
August 16, 2026
Disability discrimination: reasonable accommodation at work and school
Act 44-1985 bans disability discrimination, requires reasonable accommodation, and presumes discrimination if a job application asks about your condition.
August 23, 2026
Unjust dismissal: how severance pay is calculated
Three months of salary plus two weeks per full year of service, capped at nine months. One year to claim from the dismissal date.
August 23, 2026
Workplace harassment: what counts, what does not, and where to claim
Act 90-2020 defines workplace harassment, lists nine qualifying behaviors and seven that do not, and sets double damages. One year to claim.
August 23, 2026
Sexual harassment at work: the employer answers
For its agents’ or supervisors’ acts the employer answers even if it did not know. The law sets double damages, or no less than $10,000.
August 23, 2026
Special leave: 15 days to handle a violence situation
Act 83-2019 gives up to 15 working days a year, unpaid and additional to your other leaves, to handle your situation or a family member’s.
August 23, 2026
Retaliation for speaking up: Act 115 and its three years
No employer may dismiss, threaten or discriminate against you for offering testimony or information, even inside the company itself. Double damages.
August 23, 2026
Domestic work: written contract, overtime and vacation
The contract must be in writing. If the employer does not produce it, the burden of proving employment terms is theirs. Eight-hour days and time-and-a-half overtime.
August 23, 2026
Teachers: evaluation, autonomy and the one-year cap out of the classroom
Act 160-2020 gives public school teachers 31 rights: 5-day evaluation notice, pedagogical autonomy, and a one-year cap on precautionary measures.
August 28, 2026
Union member: voting, seeing the books and 30 days to claim
Act 333-2004 gives you the right to vote by secret ballot, be consulted before dues rise, and examine the books. The complaint is filed within 30 days.
August 23, 2026
Police Officers’ Bill of Rights: free certificates, CRIM exemption and pensions
Act 1-2022 gives police officers fee-free official certificates, a $10,000 property tax exemption and an hours cap on off-duty outside work.
August 26, 2026
Barber and barber-stylist licence: requirements, exam and renewal
Act 146-1968 requires being 18, a course or two years as an apprentice, and a Board exam. The licence renews every three years with a medical certificate.
August 23, 2026
Your SSN on the employee ID: prohibited, and the waiver cannot be required
Act 207-2006 bars employers from displaying your SSN on employee IDs, directories or general-circulation documents. Fine from $500 to $5,000.
August 23, 2026
Genetic information discrimination: a felony, and treble damages
Act 107-2013 bars requiring genetic tests for employment and denying coverage for genetic predisposition. It is a felony, and damages are trebled.
August 23, 2026
Renewing or recertifying your health professional license (ORCPS)
Nurse, therapist, psychologist, pharmacist: renewed every three years, online, and with the ASUME negative certificate almost nobody remembers until the end.
August 13, 2026
Claiming wages, vacation or Christmas bonus from the Labor Department
The Labor Standards Bureau investigates non-unionized employees’ complaints: wages, overtime, vacation, bonus, illegal deductions and unjustified dismissal.
August 27, 2026
Bringing a claim against your employer, free and without a lawyer: the OMA
A free forum with concurrent jurisdiction with the court over wages, unjustified dismissal, vacation and bonus. You may appear on your own.
August 15, 2026
Work permit for a minor in Puerto Rico
Any minor who wants to work needs a permit from the Labor Standards Bureau. The forms for each case, and why the minor must appear in person.
August 15, 2026
Mandatory decrees: why your vacation may not be the Ley 180 amount
Forty-two industry decrees set vacation and sick leave accrual. If you were hired before 1 August 1995 and are still with the same employer, you may be owed more.
August 15, 2026
Appealing an unemployment or SINOT determination
15 days from when the determination was delivered or mailed, and you must keep claiming every two weeks while appealing. Three levels: arbitrator, Secretary, court.
August 15, 2026
A free lawyer to bring a claim against your employer
The DTRH’s Legal Affairs Bureau represents workers at no cost. 65% of its cases are under $5,000 — the ones no private lawyer will take.
August 15, 2026
Labour arbitration and mediation where there is a union
The Conciliation and Arbitration Bureau resolves union–employer disputes. The service is free of charge and the arbitrator’s award is final and binding.
August 15, 2026
The Employment Service and the American Job Centers
Job seeker registration, occupational counselling and placement, with priority for veterans, people with disabilities and unemployment claimants. Thirteen offices.
August 15, 2026
Reporting dangerous working conditions to PR OSHA
You can ask for an inspection and for your employer not to be told who complained. A written, signed complaint is the one that most often produces one.
August 15, 2026
Habilitación: becoming eligible to work in government again
Ley 8-2017 bars from public service anyone convicted or dismissed, and creates the process for that person to be evaluated and declared fit again.
August 15, 2026
Private detective or security guard license: form PPR-136.1
One form for both licenses, new or renewal, with the seven requirements the Police print on it.
August 13, 2026
Working Woman’s Bill of Rights: what you are owed and where it is written
Maternity, lactation, equal pay, a harassment-free workplace. Act 9-2020 gathers twenty scattered rights and requires your employer to post them.
August 24, 2026
Minimum wage: who is covered and how to collect what you are owed
If you were paid below the minimum you can collect the difference plus an equal amount, with costs and attorney fees. No agreement to the contrary defeats it.
August 24, 2026
You claim against your employer: the law makes them pay the attorney fees
Act 402-1950 orders the employer to pay fees when the worker wins, and forbids the worker paying their own. Losing does not order you to pay them.
August 24, 2026
Fixed-term employment contract: the clause making you waive rights is void
Act 3-1988 voids any clause in a fixed-term or specific-work contract letting the employer dismiss you without cause or making you waive benefits.
August 24, 2026
No one under 18 may be used to promote alcohol or tobacco
Act 204-1998 bans employing, contracting or using anyone under 18 in advertising, promotion or marketing of alcohol and tobacco, with fines of $1,000 to $3,000.
August 24, 2026
Sex discrimination in employment: what Act 69 declares illegal, point by point
Act 69-1985 bans sex discrimination in employment, includes pregnancy and childbirth, and reaches job ads, interview questions and fringe benefits.
August 24, 2026
Your public employee group: elections, dues, books and discipline
Act 358-2004 requires every bona fide group’s constitution and bylaws to guarantee elections, access to the books and a fair disciplinary procedure.
August 24, 2026
Act 100: the grounds you cannot be discriminated on at work, and what you can recover
Act 100-1959 bans employment discrimination by age, race, sex, orientation, veteran status, being a violence victim and even hairstyle.
August 24, 2026
Drug testing in public employment: when it applies and what a positive means
Act 78-1997 governs the public sector: you cannot be dismissed for a first corroborated positive, save five exceptions, and it sets 24- and 32-hour deadlines.
August 24, 2026
Five extra points on the employment exam if you have a disability
Act 81-1996 requires adding five points or 5%, whichever is greater, to a disabled applicant’s score on any entry or promotion exam.
August 24, 2026
Suspended sentence or probation: relief to work for the government
Act 70-1963 relieves the legal disability to hold public posts for those with a suspended sentence, probation, an alternative penalty or parole.
August 25, 2026
Points on the public job exam for receiving economic assistance
Act 1-2004 adds five points or 5%, whichever is greater, to the public job exam, and protects the confidentiality of whoever discloses it.
August 26, 2026
Universal recognition of occupational and professional licenses
Act 102-2025 requires Local Boards to recognize licenses from other states and decide within 30 days, or automatically issue a provisional one.
August 26, 2026
Professional license by endorsement for military spouses
Act 271-2012 gives military spouses and certain federal employees a professional license by endorsement within 180 days, or a temporary one meanwhile.
August 26, 2026
Paid special leave for public employees at the State Elections Commission
Act 96-2026 gives public employees up to five paid days to work at the State Elections Commission in an election year, with no pay docked.
August 26, 2026
Recovering litigation costs when a worker wins their claim
Act 185-2026 lets a worker who prevails in a summary labor claim recover litigation costs, under Rule 44.1.
August 26, 2026
Requirements for the Puerto Rico bar exam
Act 189-2026 eliminates the one-year residency requirement to apply for the bar exam. These are the three requirements that remain.
August 26, 2026
Social Security does not reduce your Police Retirement Trust payment
Act 147-2026 bars discounting or adjusting the Police Retirement Trust's annual payment because a retiree also receives Social Security.
August 26, 2026
Provisional licence for health professionals during an emergency
In a declared public health emergency, the Health Secretary can order provisional licences with no specialty exam.
August 27, 2026
Provisional licence for veterinarians and veterinary technicians
You can practise under supervision while waiting for the board exam. Act 25-2026 opened a new route for non-accredited school graduates.
August 27, 2026
Public employee health plan: who is covered and who negotiates yours
Act 95-1963 defines which public employee is covered by ASES plans. Education and Public Safety are excluded, but may opt in if they wish.
August 27, 2026
Provisional licence for radiologic and radiotherapy technologists
You can practise under supervision while awaiting the board exam: 12 months, extendable by 12 more, with a duty to sit consecutively.
August 27, 2026
Medical licence in Puerto Rico: what Act 46-2026 changed
Physicians licensed in the US need only four documents, and there is a free provisional licence for volunteer service. What the Board requires.
August 27, 2026
Selling in a government building: space and power at no cost
Act 140-1976 requires agencies to set aside sales space for severely disabled persons, charging them for neither the space nor the electricity.
August 29, 2026
The 5% public employment target for people with disabilities
Act 219-2006 sets public policy that every agency and public corporation have at least 5% qualified persons with disabilities in its workforce.
August 29, 2026
Paid work in the Blind Industry Program
Act 139-2014 creates paid-work workshops for blind people and people with disabilities, and requires agencies and municipalities to buy their goods.
August 29, 2026
Sharecropping contract: working a farm that is not yours
Act 24-1978 gives the sharecropper the right to agricultural programmes in their own name, but only if the deal is in writing and filed in the Registry.
August 29, 2026
Manos Pa’l Campo: labour for the coffee harvest
Act 38-2011 gives priority to local workers in the coffee harvest and allows bringing foreign workers only up to half of the need left uncovered.
August 29, 2026
Paid leave for Red Cross disaster volunteers
Act 58-1994 gives public and municipal employees certified as Red Cross disaster volunteers up to 30 calendar days of paid leave in 12 months.
August 29, 2026
Sports psychology course for coaches and trainers
Act 278-2018 provides that coaches, recreational leaders, officials and PE teachers take two contact hours a year of sports psychology.
August 30, 2026
Gender equality plan at your agency
Act 212-1999 requires every agency and municipality to hold a gender equality plan, with a named coordinator and fines for breaches.
August 30, 2026
If your employer has no State Insurance Fund policy
An uninsured employer loses its immunity: you can claim before the Industrial Commission and also sue it for damages in court.
August 31, 2026
A work accident caused by a third party
If a third party caused your work injury you can claim damages, but not before 90 days from when the Fund’s resolution became final, and you have one year to do it.
August 31, 2026
Government work with a suspended sentence
Act 70-1963 lifts the disqualification automatically when the sentence is suspended. But the relief is not a job, and if probation is revoked you lose the post.
August 31, 2026
The Fund’s dietas under the statute
The statute sets 66⅔% of the wage, never more than two hundred nor less than sixty dollars weekly, and up to three hundred and sixty-four weeks.
September 1, 2026
The Fund’s compensation schedule
Each limb has a number of weeks in the statute: 300 for an arm, 200 for hearing, 15 for a toe. The absolute cap is twelve thousand dollars.
September 1, 2026
The permanent total disability pension
Between a hundred and thirty and four hundred and thirty dollars a month for life, plus eighty for your carer and two thousand to adapt the house.
September 1, 2026
If a worker dies: what the Fund pays
Up to fifteen hundred for the funeral, plus a monthly pension of a hundred and thirty to four hundred and thirty dollars the widow and children collect indefinitely.
September 1, 2026
Which illnesses the Fund covers
Forty-two illnesses with their process, an open clause for the rest, three years to claim, and triple compensation if the employer broke the safety law.
September 1, 2026
Reinstatement after disability
Fifteen days from discharge to ask for the job, and an outer limit of twelve months from the accident, or six if the employer had fifteen employees or fewer.
September 1, 2026
The report the employer owes the Fund
Five days to report in writing, a register of every serious or slight injury, and up to five thousand dollars in court-imposed fines for failing.
September 1, 2026
Guardianship and heirs in Fund cases
When a worker dies, the declaration of heirs is handled urgently and free of costs: neither the court nor the civil registry may charge for it.
September 1, 2026
Your Fund case file: who may see it
The Act makes the Fund’s reports private and punishes revealing them, but says expressly that none of it bars you or your lawyer from inspecting your case.
September 1, 2026
The Fund for truckers and owners
The Act lets the self-employed trucker and the owner doing manual work buy their own Fund policy, and the latter extend it to a spouse and unwaged children.
September 1, 2026
Accidents the Fund does not cover
The Act excludes three cases, and two carry a condition: drunkenness must have caused the accident, and recklessness must have been the only cause.
September 2, 2026
The five days to report to the Fund
The Act gives you five business days to present for treatment, defines what counts as presenting, and says medical care can never be denied to you.
September 2, 2026
If the Fund delays deciding your case
After a month without justified cause with the case complete, the Act lets you complain to the Industrial Commission so it orders the Administrator to decide.
September 2, 2026
Workers the Fund’s Act does not cover
The Act excludes three groups and, for them, the employer’s liability is as if the Act did not exist: you sue in court and may attach property without bond.
September 2, 2026
The Fund premium is the employer’s to pay
No agreement for the worker to pay part of the premium is valid, and deducting it from wages is a misdemeanour with a fine of up to $5,000.
September 2, 2026
Desempleo Digital: the new platform
Since 1 September 2026, Unemployment Insurance and the Employer Portal run on a new system, reached through trabajo.pr.gov.
September 2, 2026
Remote work for an out-of-state employer
Act 27-2024 decides which employment law applies if you work from Puerto Rico for a company with no nexus here. It turns on domicile and exempt status.
September 2, 2026
Clocking in with your personal phone
It is not banned, but it is not free either. Refusing is no breach and no grounds for discipline, and permanent tracking just to log attendance is disproportionate.
September 2, 2026
Equal pay: Act 16-2017
It bans unequal pay by sex for comparable work, bans asking your salary history, and protects talking about your pay. One year to claim.
September 2, 2026
The equal-pay self-evaluation
The self-evaluation frees an employer from the extra penalty, never from back pay. DTRH’s guidelines say what to review: hiring, classification, bonuses and manuals.
September 2, 2026
The Labor Department’s workplace posters
DTRH publishes eleven posters to download free, from SINOT to PR OSHA, which regulation requires be reproduced at 8½" x 14" minimum.
September 2, 2026
A lawyer in an unemployment case
They may only charge what the Secretary approves, capped at $1,000 per case, and those fees come out of the Employment Security Administration Fund.
September 2, 2026
Act 402: when the employer pays the lawyer
The four conditions the Supreme Court requires, and why a public personnel claim does not always count as labour legislation.
September 2, 2026
The meal period at work
One hour within the workday, between the start of the third and the sixth hour, and the penalty if you are made to work it.
September 2, 2026
Good Friday and Easter Sunday at work
Which businesses must still close on those two days and why hours worked are paid as extraordinary compensation.
September 2, 2026
The probationary period: nine months, not three
Act 41-2022 cut it to three months, but was annulled in 2023. The nine or twelve months of Act 4-2017 govern.
September 2, 2026
The tip credit and your minimum wage
If you receive tips you are owed the full state minimum: the employer puts in at least $2.13 an hour and tips cover the rest.
September 2, 2026
Is there a cap on overtime?
The law sets no cap on overtime: it sets a price. The only requirement is that they be paid at time and a half.
September 2, 2026
The 130 hours a month to accrue leave
The threshold applies to every employee, even those hired before 2017, and an employer may give you 129 hours without accrual.
September 2, 2026
How many employees count for the bonus
The bonus percentage depends on company size, counting those who worked more than 26 weeks, regardless of hire date.
September 2, 2026
Mandatory financial training in public service
Act 42-2023 requires OATRH to give every public servant a personal-finance course, periodically through their career.
September 2, 2026
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