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A just cause termination means that the employer has terminated your employment on the basis of serious misconduct that goes to the heart of your employment contract. A just cause termination means that the misconduct was severe enough such that your employment relationship cannot be repaired.
As in the United States, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) applies in Puerto Rico to covered employers engaged in interstate commerce.
Non-compete clauses in employment contracts are valid and enforceable in Puerto Rico under general freedom of contract principles but must comply with requirements established by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
2.3 Working Hours. According to Puerto Rico Act Number 379 of (Law No 379), which covers non-exempt (hourly) employees, eight hours of work constitutes a regular working day in Puerto Rico and 40 hours of work constitutes a workweek. Working hours exceeding these minimums must be compensated as overtime.
285 indicates the just causes for resignation as follows: serious insult to the honor and person of the employee; inhuman and unbearable treatment accorded the employee by the employer or his representative; crime committed against the person of the employee or any immediate members of the employee's family; and.
In short, just cause for termination is severe misconduct, neglect or incompetence on the part of an employee. Usually, employers must provide employees notice or termination pay in lieu of notice before their employment can be terminated (these are called without cause terminations).
By Janet A. In California, North Dakota, the District of Columbia, and Oklahoma, non-competes are either entirely or largely unenforceable as against public policy. Other states, including Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Washington, have banned non-compete agreements for low-wage workers.
Russell Beck: So there is no federal law on noncompetes; every state has its own noncompete law. Some states, like California, don't enforce noncompetes at all; they favor employee mobility over the protection of former employer's information.
4 of 26 January 2017 (the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act (Law No. 4)), requires that termination be for 'just cause' (or the payment of a statutory severance). A termination is for 'just cause' if it is not motivated by legally prohibited reasons or the product of the employer's caprice.
While agreements that restrict employees from competing within a few miles of the employer's headquarters are often enforceable, agreements that prohibit an employee from competing anywhere in the world are often (though not always) unenforceable.