P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 1202
The Commission shall have the following functions:
(a) Develop a Program to Guarantee Equal Employment Opportunities for the Sexes, pursuant to local and federal laws that prohibit job discrimination.
(b) Propose criteria for the design of plans for equal opportunity employment by gender in the agencies, public instrumentalities and municipalities or their entities and corporations, hereinafter “agencies”. The plans shall be management programs that, in an integral manner, shall implement the measures necessary to identify, evaluate, correct and eradicate discriminatory treatment against female employees and applicants in the public service.
(c) Develop and offer training to the agencies on the preparation of plans to guarantee equal employment opportunities for the sexes.
(d) Offer counseling to the agencies that have the obligation to develop and enforce plans to guarantee equal employment opportunities for the sexes, which shall include the pertinent mechanisms to eliminate arbitrary barriers in the processes of recruitment, selection, appointment, examinations, transfers, promotions, seniority, lines of progress and other terms and conditions of employment, strengthening the merit principle that governs public employment in Puerto Rico.
The plans of the agencies shall include the following:
(1) Express declaration of the commitment of the agency;
(2) appointment of a Coordinator to be designated by the Secretary or Director of each agency;
(3) diffusion of the plan;
(4) statistical evaluation;
(5) goals and schedule for compliance with the plan;
(6) planning of affirmative actions to eliminate the so-called glass [ceiling] phenomenon, examining the practices to promote qualified women to positions of leadership;
(7) development of programs to attain the goals established, such as the development of internal information systems for the follow-up, review and evaluation of all the phases of the plan and the resolution of complaints for sexual discrimination at agency level;
(8) filing of an annual progress report of the development and implementation of the plan to the Commission.
(e) Request from the pertinent agencies any information and/or statistics on the plans developed and the practices and procedures germane to the employment conditions of women in the public service.
(f) Supervise the progress of the plans to guarantee equal employment opportunities for the sexes in the public service.
(g) Prepare and submit to the Governor of Puerto Rico an annual report on the progress of the plans of the agencies.
(h) Provide training programs to private institutions that request the same to promote the implementation of plans in the private sector, in order to eliminate artificial barriers that prevent the professional development of women.
History —Aug. 3, 1999, No. 212, § 3.