P.R. Laws tit. 3A, § VIII
The Department of Labor and Human Resources and the components hereby integrated and attached to it excluding the Council for Occupational Development and Human Resources, shall hold the status of individual administrators pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975, known as the “Puerto Rico Public Service Personnel Act”, and Act No. 89 of July 12, 1979, known as the “Uniform Compensation Act”. The Secretary may integrate all the functions of the various personnel offices of each component into a single one, and adopt a classification and retribution master plan and a model set of regulations that shall apply to all of the above. Said documents shall be approved by the Secretary within a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following the approval of the Reorganization Plan. For the final approval of these Plans, or amendments thereto, the Secretary shall obtain the prior approval of the Central Personnel Administration Office and the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, in order to insure their fiscal feasibility.
The Council for Occupational Development and Human Resources shall be exempt from the provisions of the Puerto Rico Public Service Personnel Act, Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975. As such, it shall establish its own personnel system based on the merit principle, following the public policy established in said act. This document shall be approved by the Secretary within a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following the approval of this Reorganization Plan. Furthermore, within a period of twelve (12) months following the approval of this Plan, it shall establish its classification and uniform remuneration plans, which must obtain the approval of the Office of Management and Budget in order to insure their fiscal feasibility.
The laws, agreements or contracts which provide for any Program and/or Bureau of the Department of Labor and Human Resources to be totally or partially paid for by other agencies or public instrumentalities, shall remain in full force.
History —Renumbered as § X on June 10, 2000, No. 97, § 16.