Article 133 Federal Labor Law

It is prohibited to the employers or to their representatives:

I.To refuse to accept employees by reason of ethnic or national origin, gender, age, disability, social condition, conditions of health, religion, opinions, sexual preferences, marital status or any other criterion that may give rise to a discriminatory act;

II.- To require that the employees buy their articles of consumption in a store or determined place;

III.- To require or accept money from the employees as gratification because they are admitted in the work or for any other motive that refers to the conditions of this;

IV.To oblige the employees by coercion or by any other means, to affiliate or withdraw from the labor union or grouping to which they belong, or to vote for a determined candidacy, as well as any act or omission that attempts against their right to decide who must represent them in collective bargaining;

V.To intervene in any form in the internal regime of the labor union, impede its formation or the development of the union activity, by means of implicit or explicit reprisals against the employees;

VI.- To make or authorize collections or subscriptions in the establishments and places of work;

VII.- To execute any act that restricts to the employees the rights that the laws grant them;

VIII.- To make political or religious propaganda within the establishment;

IX.- To employ the system of putting in the index the employees who separate or are separated from the work so that occupation is not given them again;

X.To carry weapons in the interior of the establishments located within the populations;

XI.To appear in the establishments in state of drunkenness or under the influence of a narcotic or enervating drug;

XII.To perform acts of molestation and/or sexual harassment against any person in the place of work;

XIII.To permit or tolerate acts of molestation and/or sexual harassment in the work center;

XIV.To require the presentation of medical certificates of non-pregnancy for the entry, permanence or promotion in the employment;

XV.To dismiss an employee or coerce her directly or indirectly so that she resigns for being pregnant, for change of marital status or for having the care of minor children, and

XVI.To discharge or terminate the employment relationship of an employee who has the quality of disappeared person and has a Special Declaration of Absence, in the terms of what is established in the special legislation on the matter.

XVII.- To perform any act tending to exercise control over the labor union to which their employees belong;

XVII Bis.- To oblige the employees to remain standing during the totality of the working day and prohibit them from taking a seat periodically during the development of their functions, and

XVIII.The others that this Law establishes.