Read the article by Quirós Méndez, Carlos. “The effect of the New Labor Law in P

Read the article by Quirós Méndez, Carlos. “The effect of the New Labor Law in Puerto Rico”Links to an external site. and complement it with reading the explanatory memorandum of Law 4 of 2017. In the article, the impact of the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Law (Law 4 of 2017) is explored from the author’s point of view. According to Quiroz Mendez (2017), “As a result of the imposition of the Fiscal Control Board, the government of Puerto Rico has assumed as its own the employers’ unfinished agenda of “making employment contracts even more flexible,” as well as reducing the cost of labor force. As the government tries to justify, this “flexibility” will supposedly create a greater number of jobs and reduce the emigration of young people to the US and other countries in the world.”
Search for information about what happened in Puerto Rico, in relation to employment and unemployment from 2017-2019 (use data from the Department of Labor), and write an essay, for or against, debating Quiroz Méndez’s article about the effect of Law 4 of 2017 in Puerto Rico.
It must include at least 1 academic source, formatted and cited in APA.