Puerto Rico raises its minimum wage to $8.50 starting January 2022

By DLA Piper on September 27, 2021

Posted in Employment, Featured, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has enacted the Minimum Wage Act, Act No. 47-2021, increasing the Island’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 effective January 1, 2022.

Take a look at the new law, the employees it does and does not cover, and penalties for failing to comply: click here to read the full article.

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