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80C H A P T E R Vbeing efficient, provided that the workers have not agreed to use their own tools.The employer is not entitled to require any indemnification or compensation forthe natural wear and tear suffered by the work tools, instruments, and materials;this is a natural consequence of job performance;b) Provide a secure place for the safekeeping of all work instruments and toolsbelonging to the worker, if they need to remain in the work place. However, theemployer may not retain them as an indemnification, guarantee, etc. This obligationis established in order to prevent such instruments from suffering any damagein prejudice to the worker;c) Maintain a sufficient number of seats or chairs, available to the workers, in commercialestablishments, offices, hotels, restaurants, industrial establishments, andother analogous work places. This provision exists because the type of activitiesthat workers perform in commercial establishments, offices, hotels, restaurants andother analogous work places forces them to stand for long periods of time. Therefore,they should be provided seats in order to rest;d) Issue every 15 days, upon the request of the workers, a written record of the numberof days each worker worked and the salary he/she received;e) Issue to any worker (those who request it and those who are terminated), withinthree days, a written record of his/her employment;f) Grant to workers the time necessary to exercise their right to vote in popular electionsand to fulfill jury, electoral, and census duties;g) Allow workers to miss work in order to perform an incidental or permanentcommission for his/her union or the State, provided workers give timely noticeand that the number of such commissions does not harm the operations of thebusiness;h) Inform the union with whom the company has signed a collective bargainingagreement, as well as any other workers who might be eligible, of all newly createdpositions and of all definitive and temporary open positions;i) When more than 100 and less than 1,000 workers are employed, pay for technical,industrial, or practical training, in national or foreign special centers, of one ofthe company’s workers or a child of a worker, chosen both by workers andemployer based on skills, qualities and commitment. When a company has morethan 1,000 workers, it should sponsor three persons in the mentioned conditions;j) Provide training and instruction to its workers, in the terms established in ChapterIII bis of the LFT. The benefit to the company of providing training and instructionto its workers is the improvement in the productivity of the latter;k) Comply with the safety and hygiene rules established in the laws and regulationsin the facilities of factories, workshops, offices and other places where worktakes place, and rules to prevent accidents and illnesses in the work place and, in