Nazario v. Vélez

Ever since 1962, in Sec. of Labor v. Pedro A. Pizá, Inc., 86 P.R.R. 423 (1962), we anticipated that the traditional common-law concept on the main characteristics of an independent contractor should not be applied strictly,in the construction of statutes regulating minimum wages and working conditions of an eminently remedial nature. The improvement of working conditions to achieve minimum standards-of general welfare of the workers and employees is a social value more fundamental than the mere distinction framed within the strict pattern of the independent contractor, concept which developed…