Article 280 Federal Labor Law
TITLE SIX. Special Jobs · CHAPTER VIII. Rural Workers
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The temporary field employee who works continuously for a period greater than twenty-seven weeks for one or several employing persons has in their favor the presumption of being a permanent field employee.
The employing person shall keep a special record of the temporary field employees hired each year and exhibit it before the labor authorities when so required for that purpose.
At the end of the work, the determined time or the season, the employing person shall pay the field employee the proportional parts corresponding for paid vacation, vacation premium, year-end bonus (aguinaldo) and any other benefit to which they are entitled, and shall deliver a certificate to each field employee stating the days worked and the total wages earned, the seniority accumulated up to that date, as well as the withholdings and contributions for social security.