P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 711g
It is hereby provided that all the regular employees employed by the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 711-711g of this title, shall acquire the status of regular employees in the Competitive Service under Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947, as amended, known as the Personnel Act, in accordance with the following requirements if:
(a) They have rendered continuous services to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in an agency, during three (3) years or more; Provided, That 1,800 hours or more of service rendered in a fiscal year shall be considered as one year of service.
In those cases in which the working-day schedule of irregular personnel is reduced under the provisions of a Commonwealth act and/or in compliance with the federal provisions on minimum wages, the Director of the Central Personnel Administration Office shall determine the number of hours equivalent to one year of service.
The above-mentioned equivalence shall be determined by considering the hours of service that may be rendered in one fiscal year on the basis of the full-time working day that may result as a consequence of the reduction in the schedule.
(b) They have the minimum requirements of education and experience established for the type of position to which are assigned the functions they were discharging, and
(c) the heads of the agencies where they render their services certify to the Director of Personnel that such employees have rendered satisfactory services, pursuant to the standards adopted by the latter.
In case an irregular employee considers himself affected by the refusal of the head of the agency to render a satisfactory certificate of services, or on account of the contents of said certificate, the employee may, on his own or by counsel, petition for a review to the Personnel Board. The employee may resort to the Court of First Instance with an appeal for review, if the Board’s decision is adverse to him, and the decision of the Court of First Instance shall be final.
The irregular employees shall acquire the status of regular employees on the first of July immediately after they have met the requirements set forth previously.
When any irregular employee refuses to accept an appointment in a regular job, he shall so notify in writing by letter or formulary adopted for such purposes.
In accordance with the administrative regulations in force there shall be created the necessary positions to meet these purposes.
History —June 26, 1958, No. 110, p. 265, § 8; July 1, 1973, No. 8, p. 765, § 1; May 30, 1976, No. 86, p. 262, § 1.