P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 19
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and the Administrator of the Right to Employment Administration are hereby authorized to contract the services of pensioners; and teachers, officials or employees of the Department of Education and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its instrumentalities, political subdivisions, public corporations or subsidiaries thereof, and pay them extra due compensation for the additional services rendered as teachers, or in any other capacity, outside of their working hours, both in the Training and Retraining Program and in other similar programs and activities of the Department of Labor and Human Resources, and in the case of the Right to Employment Administration in training and retraining programs and other programs, without being subject to the provisions of § 551 of Title 3. In order that the provisions of such § 551, do not apply in such cases, the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and the Administrator of the Right to Employment Administration shall, previously, contact the Office of Personnel and the Puerto Rico Government Employment Service and/or any other employment service so as to produce a clear evidence of the efforts displayed to get the necessary personnel for the programs to which this section refers, and of the inability to hire such personnel outside government agencies. The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and the Administrator of the Right to Employment Administration shall obtain, before executing the corresponding contracts, the prior approval of the secretaries, heads of agencies, instrumentalities and corporations under whose direction the employees to be contracted are working. In each case the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and the Administrator of the Right to Employment Administration shall produce written evidence of the conditions under which the head of the agency concerned allows the hiring of regular personnel of his agency for the purposes set forth in this section.
History —May 31, 1973, No. 71, p. 313, § 1; July 23, 1974, No. 185, Part 2, p. 62, § 2.