The past month has been a whirlwind of meetings for Charles Hey-Maestre, executive director of Puerto Rico Legal Services Inc. Since the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Feb. 19 to cut $70 million from the budget for the Legal Services Corp., Hey-Maestre has been in talks with his organization’s board of directors and two employee unions to prepare for reductions.
Administrators are weighing numerous options, including shuttering three or four of the group’s 17 offices around the island, employee furloughs, pay cuts and eliminating the corporate contribution to worker 401(k) plans.
