P.R. Laws tit. 1, § 511
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall supervise compliance of this chapter in all that concerns employment, together with the Advocate for Disabled Persons.
The remedies, powers, authority and procedures established in §§ 146, 147, 147a, 148, and 149 of Title 29 shall be available to the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and to any person who understands that he/she has been discriminated against in the workplace because of his/her disability, in violation of the provisions of §§ 501 et seq. of this title.
The agencies empowered to enforce this chapter, the Department of Labor and Human Resources and the Office of the Advocate for Disabled Persons, shall develop procedures to ensure that administrative complaints filed pursuant to §§ 501 et seq. of this title are handled in such a way as to avoid a duplication of efforts and to prevent the imposition of inconsistent or conflictive measures under the same provisions of §§ 501 et seq. of this title. These administrative agencies shall establish coordinating mechanisms through special regulations to such effects no later than six (6) months after the approval of this act. These initial regulations shall not be subject to the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, but any amendment, renewal, or adoption of new regulations shall comply with the provisions thereof.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 44, p. 155, added as § 13 on Aug. 30, 1992, No. 53, § 1.