P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 1
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to collect from the employers, personally or through his duly authorized agents, the amount of the claims which may pertain to any worker or employee, for salaries or any compensation, right or benefit, under the present labor legislation, as a result of the administrative or judicial actions of the Department of Labor and Human Resources.
By the same token, every employer shall be bound to deposit with the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources any sum owed for any reason to his former employees who have not been found or whose whereabouts are unknown as of ninety (90) days after having knowledge of the debt; Provided, That the employers shall be bound to make such payment to the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or his authorized agents in legal tender of the United States of America, and that if said official or his agents should accept that the payment be made by money order, bank check or through any other security, they shall be drawn by the employers to the order of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources.
History —Apr. 17, 1952, No. 77, p. 158, § 1; June 4, 1960, No. 51, p. 85, § 1; July 11, 1988, No. 76, p. 329, § 1.