Article 161 Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOUR. Rights and Obligations of Employees and Employers · CHAPTER IV. Rights of preference, seniority and promotion
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
When the employment relationship has had a duration of more than twenty years, the employer may only terminate it for cause for some of the causes indicated in article 47 that is particularly serious or that makes its continuation impossible, but the corresponding disciplinary correction shall be imposed on the employee, respecting the rights deriving from his seniority.
The repetition of the fault or the commission of another or others that constitute a legal cause for termination for cause leaves the preceding provision without effect.