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Agreement Impact for Employees Is Unclear

Aside from salaries, there are public employee benefits that could be affected by public-private partnerships

17 de marzo de 2017 - 8:59 AM

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Public employees that are not transferred to PPPs because the private enterprise that signs the partnership does not want to accommodate them, will be relocated to other government areas where they are needed. (Archivo / GFR Media)

By Melisa Ortega Marrero

In spite of the guarantees for employee benefits and salaries included in the Single-Employer Act, the real labor law impact of transferring governmental employees through public-private partnerships (PPP) is still unknown, as stated former Secretary of Labor Frank Zorrilla.