P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 375
(a) The Department shall have the power, on its own initiative, to make an investigation of that portion, branch or dependency of any industry which employs [home-based workers], in order to determine:
(1) Whether the conditions of employment are injurious to the health and welfare of [home-based workers] in such portion or dependency, or
(2) whether the wages and conditions of employment prevailing in such portion, branch or dependency have the effect of rendering unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards, or the observance and enforcement of labor standards established by law or by regulation for the industry of which such portion, branch or dependency is a part, thus jeopardizing wages or working conditions of the factory workers in such industry;
(b) if, on the basis of information in its possession, and upon an investigation as provided in this section, the Department shall find that industrial [home-based work] cannot be continued within any industry, branch, or dependency thereof, without injuring the health and welfare of the [home-based workers] within that industry, or without rendering unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the observance and enforcement of labor standards established by law for the protection of the factory workers in that industry, the Department shall, by order, require all employers, representative contractors, or subcontractors in such industry to correct within a reasonable period the deficiencies found, or to discontinue the furnishing within this Commonwealth, of articles or materials for industrial [home-based work]; and no permit issued under §§ 371—392 of this title shall be deemed thereafter to authorize the furnishing of articles or materials for industrial [home-based work] prohibited by such order, until such deficiencies have been corrected;
(c) All power machines permitted by law, used in the conduct of industrial [home-based work], shall be guarded in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Department of Labor and Human Resources.
History —May 15, 1939, No. 163, p. 812, § 5, eff. 90 days after May 15, 1939.