P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 287
Every employer who fails to pay the rate of wages stipulated in §§ 271—288 of this title for regular hours or extra hours of work, or who permits, induces, or obliges an employee to waive, to accept, or to agree to waive, the compensation on the basis of double time for extra hours, or who does not keep the payrolls of the wages as determined by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, or who does not submit the reports in regard to wages that the Secretary may request, or prevents the examination of said payrolls by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or his authorized agents, or knowingly sets forth false data in said payrolls or reports, or who violates any provisions of §§ 271—288 of this title or of the orders, rules, or regulations that the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources may prescribe as herein determined, or who discharges or otherwise discriminates against any employee because the latter has instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding in accordance with §§ 271—288 of this title or connected herewith, or who avails himself of any resources, fraud, deceit, or subterfuge in order not to pay, to evade or refuse payment of, or deprive any employee of the right to receive, double time for extra hours of work, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than fifteen (15) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court. In case of a subsequent offense, he shall be punished by a fine of from one hundred [dollars] ($100) to five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in jail for a term of from thirty (30) to ninety (90) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 18, renumbered as § 19 on July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 5.