The sweeping changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are posing particular challenges to health care providers, insurers and employers in Puerto Rico, where there are notable variations to the applicability of the law.
The Association of Labor Relations Professionals will be sponsoring its 5th Labor and Employment Law conference Oct. 2, focusing on a number of topics ranging from violence at work to retaliation.
Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla recently signed the Puerto Rico Investment Companies Law to encourage investment and capital creation through more flexible regulation.
Worried about the potentially harmful effects that eliminating the business-to-business sales tax exemption would have on their businesses, retail executives recently concluded that if the Treasury Department want to increase its revenues, it needs to “correct and streamline” the process of capturing the sales and use tax to collect from evaders.
High-ranking Puerto Rico government officials unveiled Wednesday a package of measures aimed at resolving the Commonwealth Retirement System’s critical fiscal situation, including raising the retirement age and increasing employee contributions.
Three weeks after announcing plans to submit legislation to spur job creation in Puerto Rico, Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla signed Sunday the “Jobs Now Act,” the tool his administration will rely on to create the 50,000 jobs he promised to promote during the first 18 months of his tenure.
Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla filed the “Jobs Now Act” bill Wednesday outlining his strategy to create 50,000 jobs in 18 months and the incentives companies will get in exchange for making opportunities available for out-of-work Puerto Rico residents.
Despite intense last minute lobbying by Puerto Rico's banking sector, Gov. Luis G. Fortuño has signed a law requiring that all foreclosure proceedings of a primary residence include compulsory mediation. The law is effective in July 2013.
The concerns expressed by the island’s wireless carriers and retailers over the potentially harmful effects of regulating the sale of prepaid cellphones on consumers and competition apparently fell on deaf ears, as Gov. Luis Fortuño signed Tuesday a law mandating it.
Puerto Rico’s $30.1 million pawn industry will have to abide by a new law that went into effect this week, which among other stipulations, requires companies to be licensed to purchase metals and precious stones.
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