Puerto Rico wage and hour records

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of San Juan, Puerto Rico appears in 12 investigations closed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, with $749,706 in back wages agreed for 522 workers and $3,094 in civil money penalties; the latest closed in November 2015. The file is the Department's own compliance action record, snapshot of April 22, 2026, and every case it holds on this employer is below.

From the Labor Department file

What is on record for Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Name on the record
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Also recorded as
Municipality of San Juan, Junta De Calidad Ambiental, Dept De Recursos Naturales, Dept Recursos Naturales Y Ambientales
Location on the record
San Juan, Ponce, Caguas, Puerto Rico
County
San Juan County
Industry
Other Local Governmental Facilities; State Environmental Quality Programs
Cases
12 closed, 11 with a violation found, 1 with none
Back wages agreed to pay
$749,706
Workers due back wages
522
Civil money penalties assessed
$3,094
Violations recorded
8,537
First and latest case
2004 to 2015
Repeat or willful flags
1 flagged repeat

Every investigation

Every case on the record, newest first

InvestigationLawsViolationsBack wagesWorkersPenalties
November 2015FLSA, minimum wage, overtime44$4,84940$0
December 2010 to June 2012FLSA, overtime repeat76$275,84775$3,094
June 2009 to May 2011FLSA, FMLA, overtime12$3,88310$0
July 2008 to December 2010FLSA, minimum wage, overtime315$261,821314$0
October 2007 to October 2009FLSA, overtime53$76,84449$0
July 2007 to July 2009FMLA1$1,7311$0
July 2007 to July 2009none recorded0$00$0
August 2005 to August 2007FLSA, FMLA, overtime8,028$107,97028$0
October 2004 to October 2006FLSA, overtime2$5091$0
January 2005 to May 2005FMLA1$00$0
January 2005 to May 2005FLSA, overtime4$16,2524$0
January 2003 to December 2004FLSA1$00$0

Investigation dates are the findings period the Department recorded, newest first. A zero is a zero in the file: a case can find a violation and agree no back wages.

By law

Laws involved and what each case found

  • Fair Labor Standards Act: 9 cases, $747,975 in back wages, $3,094 in penalties
  • FLSA overtime: 8 cases, $608,090 in back wages
  • FLSA minimum wage: 2 cases, $139,885 in back wages
  • Family and Medical Leave Act: 4 cases, $1,731 in back wages

Plain words

What this record means and what it does not

The Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, family leave and the wage rules on federal contracts and visa programs. Each row above is one investigation the Division closed; of the 12 on this record, 11 ended with a violation found and 1 with none.

Back wages agreed is the amount the employer agreed to pay the workers the Division found were owed, computed at the federal rates: a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in a week. Where Puerto Rico has a higher state or local minimum, the same hours would come to more under state law, and that part is not in this file.

Civil money penalties are amounts the Division assessed against the employer, separate from back wages; the file records the assessment, not what was finally paid.

The Department flagged 1 case on this record as a repeat violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which raises the penalties it may assess.

This record is federal only. It does not include claims filed with the state labor office, private lawsuits or settlements, so an employer absent from it is not an employer with a clean record, and an employer on it has not been found guilty of anything by a court. Names are written as the Department recorded them, so one business can appear under more than one legal name, and a franchise or branch can sit under its own.

If you are owed wages

Where to file a wage claim in Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico a wage claim can go to the state: Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos takes claims under state law, which often covers more than the federal rules. The federal route is the Division's page on how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division with what to send and where. The Division also keeps a search of back wages owed to workers it collected and could not deliver.

Around this employer

Nearby employers and related pages

Other employers on the record in San Juan, by back wages:

EmployerCasesBack wagesWorkers
Puerto Rico Department of Corrections7$52,463,8749,382
Puerto Rico Police Department4$24,707,22710,221
Municipio de San Juan4$5,644,0582,400
Puerto Rico Police6$4,362,746655
P.R. Police1$3,238,0541,120
Alpha Telekom, LLC1$2,000,393242
Negociado de la Policia de Puerto Rico2$1,469,955453
PR Police1$1,448,160163
Xperts, inc.1$1,341,8301,853
Puerto Rico Department of Justice5$1,236,280599

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Sources

Where this record comes from

The record comes from the Wage and Hour Division compliance action data published by the U.S. Department of Labor, every concluded investigation since fiscal 2005, snapshot dated April 22, 2026 and read for this page on November 5, 2026. The Wage and Hour Division is the office that made the findings. Figures are printed as the file carries them, a zero included; an investigation with no end date is shown by its start; the county is the one the Census Bureau puts the employer's ZIP code in.

Disclaimer. The wage and hour information here is for general information only. It comes from the Labor Department's closed case file as the Department publishes it, which can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and a case on this record is not a court judgment and not an admission by the employer. Check with the Wage and Hour Division before you rely on it. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.