The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday awarded $112 million to 50 state and territorial workforce agencies, including Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which received $302,000 and $246,000, respectively to offer reemployment services and eligibility assessments programs for those receiving unemployment insurance benefits. Estimates based on the budgets in the past 10 years […]
Looking to avoid further increases in operating costs that prevent the island’s productive sector from contributing to Puerto Rico’s socioeconomic development despite the ongoing fiscal crisis, a group of associations on Thursday asked for a moratorium on the approval of certain labor laws being considered in the Legislature.
Puerto Rico salaries could see a slight improvement next year, breaking a two-year cycle of flat results, according to the results of the 28th edition of the “Global Salary Increase Survey” conducted by Aon Hewitt.
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