Article 132 Federal Labor Law

The obligations of the employers are:

I.- Comply with the provisions of the labor standards applicable to their enterprises or establishments;

II.- Pay the employees the wages and compensation, in accordance with the standards in force in the enterprise or establishment;

III.- Provide timely to the employees the tools, instruments and materials necessary for the execution of the work, being obliged to give them in good quality, in good condition and to replace them as soon as they cease to be efficient, provided that they have not undertaken to use their own tools. The employer may not demand any compensation for the natural wear suffered by the tools, instruments and materials of work;

IV.- Provide a safe premises for the safekeeping of the instruments and tools of work belonging to the employee, whenever they must remain in the place in which they render the services, it not being lawful for the employer to retain them as compensation, guarantee or any other. The registration of instruments or tools of work must be made whenever the employee so requests;

V.- Provide the sufficient number of seats or chairs with backs at the disposal of all the employees in the sectors of services, commerce and analogous work centers, for the execution of their functions or for the periodic rest during the working day. In the case of periodic rests, the seats or chairs with backs must be located in specific areas designated for such effect in the same installations of the workplace. The same provision shall be observed in the industrial establishments when the nature of the work permits it;

VI.- Give the employees due consideration, refraining from mistreatment by word or by deed;

VII.- Issue every fifteen days, at the request of the employees, a written statement of the number of days worked and of the wage received;

VIII.- Issue to the employee who requests it or separates from the enterprise, within the term of three days, a written statement relative to their services;

IX.- Grant the employees the time necessary for the exercise of the vote in the popular elections, the processes of revocation of mandate and for the fulfillment of the services of jurors, electoral and census, to which Article 5o. of the Constitution refers, when those activities must be fulfilled within their hours of work;

X.- Permit the employees to be absent from their work to perform an accidental or permanent commission of their labor union or of the State, provided that they give notice with due timeliness and that the number of commissioned employees is not such that it prejudices the good operation of the establishment. The time lost may be deducted from the employee unless they compensate it with an equal time of effective work. When the commission is of a permanent character, the employee or employees may return to the position they occupied, preserving all their rights, provided that they return to their work within the term of six years. The substitutes shall have the character of temporary, considering them as permanent after six years;

XI.- Inform the labor union holding the collective contract and the employees of the immediately lower category, of the positions of new creation, the definitive vacancies and the temporary ones that must be filled;

XII.- Establish and maintain the schools Article 123 Constitutional, in accordance with what the laws and the Ministry of Public Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública) provide;

XIII.- Collaborate with the Labor and Education Authorities, in accordance with the laws and regulations, in order to achieve the literacy of the employees;

XIV.- Make at their own expense, when they employ more than one hundred and fewer than one thousand employees, the indispensable expenses to maintain in a decorous form the technical, industrial or practical studies, in special centers, national or foreign, of one of their employees or of one of the children of these, designated in attention to their aptitudes, qualities and dedication, by the employees themselves and the employer. When they have more than one thousand employees in their service they must maintain three scholarship holders under the conditions indicated. The employer may only cancel the scholarship when the scholarship holder is failed in the course of a year or when they observe bad conduct; but in those cases they shall be substituted by another. The scholarship holders who have finished their studies must render their services to the employer that granted them the scholarship, during at least one year;

XV.- Provide training and instruction to their employees, in the terms of Chapter III Bis of this Title.

XVI.Install and operate the factories, workshops, offices, premises and other places in which the labors must be executed, in accordance with the provisions established in the regulation and the Mexican official standards on matters of safety, health and work environment, with the effect of preventing occupational accidents and diseases. Likewise, they must adopt the preventive and corrective measures that the labor authority determines;

XVI Bis. Have, in the work centers that have more than 50 employees, adequate installations for the access and development of activities of persons with disabilities;

XVII.Comply with the regulation and the Mexican official standards on matters of safety, health and work environment, as well as have at all times the medicines and healing materials indispensable to provide timely and effectively first aid;

XVIII.Post visibly and disseminate in the places where the work is rendered, the pertinent provisions of the regulations and the Mexican official standards on matters of safety, health and work environment, as well as the integral text of the collective employment contract or contracts that govern in the enterprise; likewise, the information about the risks and dangers to which they are exposed must be disseminated to the employees;

XIX.- Provide their employees the prophylactic medicines that the health authority determines in the places where tropical or endemic diseases exist, or when there exists danger of epidemic;

XIX Bis. Comply with the provisions that in case of health emergency the competent authority establishes, as well as provide their employees the elements that said authority indicates, to prevent diseases in case of declaration of health contingency;

XX.- Reserve, when the fixed population of a rural work center exceeds two hundred inhabitants, a space of land of not less than five thousand square meters for the establishment of public markets, buildings for the municipal services and recreational centers, provided that said work center is at a distance of not less than five kilometers from the nearest population;

XXI.- Provide the labor unions, if they request it, in the rural work centers, a premises that is unoccupied so that they install their offices, charging the corresponding rent. If no premises exists in the conditions indicated, any of those assigned for lodging of the employees may be employed for that end;

XXII.- Make the deductions that the labor unions request of the ordinary union dues, provided that it is proven that they are those provided in Article 110, section VI;

XXIII.- Make the deductions of the dues for the constitution and promotion of cooperative societies and savings banks, in accordance with the provisions of Article 110, section IV;

XXIII Bis. Make the deductions and payments corresponding to the alimony pensions provided in section V of Article 110 and collaborate for that effect with the competent jurisdictional authority;

XXIV.- Permit the inspection and oversight that the labor authorities practice in their establishment to ascertain the compliance with the labor standards and give them the reports that for that effect are indispensable, when they request them. The employers may require the inspectors or commissioners to show them their credentials and inform them of the instructions they have; and

XXV.- Contribute to the promotion of the cultural activities and of sport among their employees and provide them the indispensable equipment and tools.

XXVI.Make the deductions provided in sections IV of Article 97 and VII of Article 110, pay the discounts in order of priority, first to the National Fund Institute for Workers' Consumption (Instituto del Fondo Nacional para el Consumo de los Trabajadores) and after to the other institutions. This obligation does not convert the employer into a joint debtor of the credit that has been granted to the employee;

XXVI Bis. Affiliate the work center to the National Fund Institute for Workers' Consumption, with the effect that the employees may be subjects of the credit that said entity provides. The affiliation shall be free for the employer;

XXVII.- Provide pregnant women the protection that the regulations establish.

XXVII Bis. Grant paternity leave of five working days with pay, to male employees, for the birth of their children and in the same manner in the case of the adoption of an infant;

XXVIII.- Participate in the integration and operation of the Commissions that must be formed in each work center, in accordance with what this Law establishes, and

XXIX.- Grant leave without pay to the employees declared disappeared who have a Special Declaration of Absence, in the terms of what is established in the special legislation on the matter.

XXIX Bis.- Grant the pertinent facilities to the employees with respect to the licenses issued by the Institute as Article 140 Bis of the Social Security Law establishes.

XXX.Deliver to their employees free of charge a printed copy of the initial collective employment contract or of its revision within the fifteen days following that said contract is deposited before the Federal Center for Labor Conciliation and Registration (Centro Federal de Conciliación y Registro Laboral); this obligation may be accredited with the signature of receipt of the employee;

XXXI.Implement, in agreement with the employees, a protocol to prevent discrimination for reasons of gender and attention of cases of violence and harassment or sexual molestation, as well as eradicate forced and child labor;

XXXII.Post and disseminate in the places of greatest influx of the work center the faithful text of the convocation and other documents that the Federal Center for Labor Conciliation and Registration requests of them for the development of the consultation procedure to which Articles 390 Bis and 390 Ter make reference;

XXXIII.Post in the places of greatest influx of the work center the convocation that the labor union requests of them when the content of the initial collective employment contract or the revision agreement is consulted with the employees, in terms of Articles 390 Ter and 400 Bis, and

XXXIV.Register electronically the working day of each employee, including the schedule of initiation and conclusion; as well as provide it to the authority when it is required of them.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall issue the provisions of general character that determine the scope of application and exception to the obligation established in the preceding paragraph.

The content of the electronic record shall make full proof if it is accredited that it was agreed between the employee and employer.