Under an Amendment to Puerto Rico’s Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act, employees in companies with at least 15 workers may be entitled to use up to five of their annual sick leave days for the purposes of caring for a sick dependant. In order to be eligible to use their leave in this way an employee must have already accumulated five days’ sick leave and must still be able to achieve an additional five days’ sick leave for personal use in the relevant year. In Puerto Rico employees accrue sick leave in the amount of one day per month for every month in which they work at least 115 hours, up to a maximum annual entitlement of 12 days.