P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 502
The payment of the bonus herein established shall be made not prior to the first (1st) nor after the fiftenth (15th) of each month of December, except in such cases in which the employer and his workers or employees may have convened by mutual agreement on another date.
If the payment of the bonus herein established is not made in the manner and within the term already set forth, or on the date in which the employer, his workers and employees may have convened, the employer shall be bound to pay, in addition to said bonus, a sum equal to one-half the sum of the bonus by reason of additional compensation when the payment has been made within the first six (6) months of its noncompliance. If the payment is delayed more than six (6) months, the employer shall be bound to pay another sum equal to said bonus, as additional compensation.
History —June 30, 1969, No. 148, p. 550, § 2; June 19, 1970, No. 12, p. 428, § 2.