P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 342m
(a) The Administration shall be excluded from the provisions of Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975. The Administration shall have a personnel system based on the merit principle. The Administration employees shall be entitled to negotiate collective bargaining agreements. Within one hundred eighty (180) days after the date of approval of this act, the Administration must adopt, with the advice of the Personnel Office, personnel regulations embodying the merit principle, which shall govern the personnel standards of those employees who are covered by collective bargaining agreements.
A copy of the regulations thus adopted shall be sent to the Legislature of Puerto Rico.
(b) All personnel rendering services in the Medical Center on the date this act takes effect are hereby transferred to the Administration. The personnel thus transferred shall keep their vested rights under the laws and regulations in force at the time of the transfer, as well as all rights, privileges, duties and status in connection with any existing pension or retirement system or systems or savings and loan funds to which they may be affiliated.
(c) All the provisions of the personnel regulations and of the Collective Bargaining Agreement in force when this act is approved shall continue in effect until their expiration, repeal or amendment.
History —June 22, 1978, No. 66, p. 203, § 14.