Every employer who requires his/her employees to use a uniform shall have to defray the expense of their acquisition. Under no circumstances shall the employee be required in any way, to contribute directly or indirectly to assume, totally or partially, the expense of acquiring said uniforms. Pursuant to this section, every health services employer is required to assume the obligation to furnish uniforms, or their equivalent in money, to the nurses, as well as to laboratory and radiology technicians, therapists, or other technical health professionals whose practice requires the use of uniforms.
History —July 27, 1998, No. 180, § 7; July 30, 1999, No. 192, § 1.