P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 1152
All contracts, obligations, funds, properties, materials, equipment and personnel of the Occupational Development Administration are hereby transferred to the Right to Employment Administration.
The Right to Employment Administration may continue the agricultural incentive programs carried out by the Occupational Development Administration. To such effect, it may receive and analyze the applications submitted by the private employers and by government enterprises.
The employees to be transferred from the Manpower Development Administration to the Right to Employment Administration, who are regular employees within the Competitive Service, shall retain, while holding the same position they held at the time of the transfer, the status they may have within said Service. The persons who, at the time of the transfer, were on probation, shall retain said status until completing the probation period assigned to their positions. The Administration shall certify to the Personnel Director, as to the quality of the services rendered by these employees, as in the cases of employees in the Competitive Service. The transferred employees who satisfactorily complete the practical probation in the Right to Employment Administration shall have the same rights that this section confers to the regular employees.
The persons transferred shall receive a compensation at least equal to that they received at the time of the transfer and shall continue enjoying all rights and benefits and shall have the obligations that their positions entailed at the time of the transfer, their conditions of employment and the conditions pertaining to their office in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947, as amended and §§ 761—788 of Title 3, and any other act which may grant rights of benefits to the employees of the Government of Puerto Rico.
History —June 21, 1968, No. 115, p. 253, title V, § 2, eff. 30 days after June 21, 1968.