If you’re sick Propper Int. won’t pay you sick days even though it’s the law
Economy Complicates Labor Dispute – NYTimes.com
The company, Propper International of St. Charles, Mo., has been making military uniforms for more than 25 years. It employs about 3,000 people at eight factories in Puerto Rico, and Tom Kellim, Propper’s chief executive, said in an interview that its pay and benefits were “equal to or better than the competition.”
So here we have a corporation knowingly and willingly breaking the law of Puerto Rico. Why are’nt the executives and board of directors being fined?
But others — like Gladys López and Albert Torres here in Adjuntas — accuse the company of using an oversupply of labor to sidestep a Puerto Rican law (known as Law 180) that grants full-time employees 12 paid sick days and 15 days of vacation per year. Ten years after the law passed, workers say, Propper still does not pay for sick days and allows only about a week of paid vacation.
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