P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 575
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning expressed below:
(a) Temporary service company.— Means any person or organization engaged in providing employees to render services to a client company.
(b) Client company.— Means any person or organization that solicits the services of temporary employees from temporary service companies.
(c) Temporary employee.— Means any employee provided by a temporary service company who renders his/her services to a particular person or organization during a certain period of time or for a certain job.
(d) Mandatory decree.— Refers to documents of a quasi-legislative nature issued by the Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Board fixing minimum wages, vacation leave, sick leave and other employment conditions for a specific industry or economic activity.
(e) Joint employers.— Refers to that condition of statutory liability imposed simultaneously by this chapter upon both the temporary service company and the client company, through which both companies are deemed to be equally liable for the conditions and rights established by virtue of Act June 26, 1956, No. 96 and 271 et seq. of this title, as though they were one single employer.
History —July 22, 1992, No. 26, § 1.