Any person who avails him/herself of the benefits of the Voluntary Pre-Retirement Program shall neither render services nor be hired by any agency or municipality while he/she is participating in the Program. Once the employee enters the System, he/she may render services to government agencies, public corporations, or municipalities in accordance with the requirements established in §§ 761 et seq. of this title, as well as in §§ 1854 et seq. of this title, known as the “Puerto Rico Government Ethics Act of 2011”. Agencies or municipalities that opt for participating in the Program shall send to the Central Labor Advisory and Human Resources Administration Office (OCALARH, Spanish acronym) a list of persons enrolled in the same and who, consequently, shall be impaired, while they participate in the Program, from being hired in an agency or municipality as a career, trust, transitory, irregular employee, or under any other classification or as an independent contractor.
The election form to participate in the Program shall contain a warning statement in bold type regarding the participants” inability to reenter public service until their participation in the Voluntary Pre-Retirement Program concludes.
History —Dec. 8, 2015, No. 211, § 11; Aug. 9, 2016, No. 170, § 7.