Compliance alert: employers in Puerto Rico failing to implement required workplace protocols and facing the consequences | Adsuar Muñiz Goyco Seda & Perez-Ochoa, P.S.C

Legal Briefing

As most employers doing business in Puerto Rico are aware, employment is a highly legislated field in this jurisdiction. All employers are required to have in place a vast array of policies and procedures, and to comply with countless laws and regulations governing everything from the initial recruitment process to post-termination issues. However, it has …

It’s not funny anymore: a primer on workplace harassment in Puerto Rico | Adsuar Muñiz Goyco Seda & Pérez-Ochoa

Legal Briefing

In a notable development for employers doing business in Puerto Rico, on 7 August 2020, the local government enacted Law 90, titled the Law to Prohibit and Prevent Workplace Harassment in Puerto Rico (our translation, hereinafter the ‘Workplace Harassment Act’), to prohibit workplace harassment (commonly referred to as ‘mobbing’). Previously, workplace harassment had not been …