Article 279 Federal Labor Law

Field employees are the natural persons who carry out labors directed to obtaining food or primary products through the carrying out of diverse agricultural, horticultural, livestock, forestry, aquaculture, poultry, apicultural or other similar tasks, provided that these are not subjected to any type of industrial process and insofar as they are carried out in rural environments.

Those who work in agricultural, horticultural, livestock, forestry, aquaculture, poultry, apicultural or other similar enterprises that acquire products from the rural environment, in order to carry out activities of packing, repacking, display, sale or for their transformation through any process that modifies their natural state, shall not be considered field employees.

Field employees may be permanent or temporary.

All field employees, whatever the modality of hiring, have the right to access social security.