Article 236 Federal Labor Law

Employers have the following special obligations:

I.To provide food, lodging and transportation to the crew members for all the time that they remain outside their base for reasons of the service. The payment shall be made in accordance with the following rules:

a)In the stations previously designated, or in those of extraordinary overnight stay, the transportation shall be by automobile and the lodging shall be covered directly by the employer. The transportation shall be provided between the airports and the place of lodging and vice versa, except in those places of permanent base of residence of the crew members.

b)When the food cannot be taken on board, the crew members shall receive an allowance in cash, which shall be fixed according to the number of meals that must be made on each trip or in the places of extraordinary overnight stay. The amount of these allowances shall be fixed by common agreement;

II.To pay to the crew members the expenses of transfer, including those of the spouse and family members of the first degree who depend economically on them, of the household goods and personal effects, when they are changed from their base of residence. The amount of these expenses shall be fixed by common agreement;

III.To repatriate or transfer to the place of hiring the crew members whose aircraft is destroyed or rendered useless outside that place, paying them their wages and the travel expenses; and

IV.To grant the permits to which article 132 sections IX and X refer, provided that the safety of the aircraft is not endangered or its departure on the previously designated date and time is not made impossible.