Article 134 Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOUR. Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers · CHAPTER II. Obligations of employees
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The obligations of the employees are:
I.- Comply with the provisions of the labor standards that are applicable to them;
II.Observe the provisions contained in the regulation and the Mexican official standards on matters of safety, health and work environment, as well as those that the employers indicate for their safety and personal protection;
III.- Perform the service under the direction of the employer or of their representative, to whose authority they shall be subordinate in all that concerns the work;
IV.- Execute the work with the intensity, care and diligence appropriate and in the form, time and place agreed;
V.- Give immediate notice to the employer, except fortuitous case or force majeure, of the justified causes that impede them from attending their work;
VI.- Restore to the employer the materials not used and conserve in good state the instruments and tools that they have given them for the work, not being responsible for the deterioration that the use of these objects originates, nor of that occasioned by fortuitous case, force majeure, or by bad quality or defective construction;
VII.- Observe good customs during the service;
VIII.- Render assistance at any time that it is needed, when by disaster or imminent risk the persons or the interests of the employer or of their companions of work are in danger;
IX.- Integrate the organisms that this Law establishes;
X.- Submit to the medical examinations provided in the internal regulation and other standards in force in the enterprise or establishment, to prove that they do not suffer any incapacity or disease of work, contagious or incurable;
XI.Inform the employer of the contagious diseases that they suffer, as soon as they have knowledge of these;
XII.Communicate to the employer or to their representative the deficiencies that they notice, in order to avoid damages or prejudices to the interests and lives of their companions of work or of the employers; and
XIII.Keep scrupulously the technical, commercial and manufacturing secrets of the products in whose elaboration they concur directly or indirectly, or of which they have knowledge by reason of the work that they perform, as well as of the reserved administrative matters, whose divulgation may cause prejudices to the enterprise.