Trinta v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

Mr. Justice Ramírez Bages

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiffs-petitioners Kenny Trinta et al. appeal to this Court by way of certiorari seeking review of the order of July 30, 1962 of the Superior Court, San Juan Part, which declared that the provisions of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act—29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq.—do not cover petitioners and that the hours between 40 and 48 hours a week worked by them for intervener C. Brewer Puerto Rico, Inc. must be compensated at the regular rate.

In two separate complaints petitioners allege that all of them had rendered services to…