P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 1125
The purpose of this chapter is that there be employment opportunities for the totality of unemployed workers in Puerto Rico. If the funds appropriated for the operation of the Administration were not sufficient in any given year for the total accomplishment of said purpose, the Administration, through pertinent studies, shall determine the priorities which, under such circumstances, should be recognized and established m the employment opportunities under this chapter, but always giving special attention to those persons who request employment when no other member of their family unit is employed. Such priorities may be related with the economic situation of the worker and his/her position as head of family; with the present and future demand for workers with determined degrees of training in the different regions or types of industries, as well as the number of unemployed youths. It is further provided that the Administration shall respect the principle of merit, adopt specific strategies geared toward identifying those applicants whose family unit does not have any other source of income, such as applicants that are heads of family and have the custody of their underage children, to expedite addressing such cases for furtherance of the prompt integration or reintegration of such persons into the workforce. The Administration shall set forth adequate coordination and articulation with the departments and agencies that provide employment services and assistance to families, such as the Department of the Family and the Department of Labor and Human Resources.
History —June 21, 1968, No. 115, p. 253, title II, § 5; Sept. 3, 2003, No. 241, § 1.