P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 522
The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company is hereby authorized and directed to execute with responsible employers contracts through which the Development Company guarantees the unpaid balance of expenditures made by the said employers in paying the travel expenses of Puerto Rican workers to any specific place for the purposes of working at employment obtained for them under the program authorized by §§ 521—524 of this title, including among other items, travel and accident insurance during the journey and lodging and subsistence expenses for an initial period of not more than two weeks; Provided, That the disbursement insured by the Development Company in the abovesaid manner shall be reimbursed to the employer by the worker through reasonable proportional deductions from his periodic pay. The scale of deductions fixed shall first be approved by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico. Nothing herein provided shall be understood as affecting, modifying, limiting or superseding the duties, obligations and liabilities of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, under the provisions of Act No. 89 approved May 9, 1947, as heretofore or hereafter amended.
When any employer insured hereunder incurs in a breach of the obligations assumed by him with respect to a Puerto Rican worker, as a result of which said worker loses his job, the Industrial Development Company shall, for such reason, be relieved from any obligation or liability under the insurance contract entered into between said Company and the employer. In these cases, the Economic Development Administrator and the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall jointly decide what they may deem pertinent in furtherance of the public interest; but they shall, in their determination, abide by the resolution of the arbitrators, committees, governmental agencies or courts of justices passing upon these cases.
History —Apr. 26, 1951, No. 148, p. 348, § 2.