Article 20 Federal Labor Law
TITLE TWO. Individual Employment Relationships · CHAPTER I. General provisions
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
Employment relationship is understood, whatever the act that gives rise to it, as the provision of a personal subordinate work to a person, through the payment of a wage.
Individual employment contract, whatever its form or denomination, is that by virtue of which a person obliges himself to provide to another a personal subordinate work, through the payment of a wage.
The provision of a work referred to in the first paragraph and the contract entered into produce the same effects.