Article 291-K Federal Labor Law
TITLE SIX. Special Jobs · CHAPTER IX BIS. WORK ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
In any case, natural persons and legal persons that administer or manage services through digital platforms, in their capacity as employer, shall have the following special obligations:
I.Pay for the works derived from the services provided, within a term no greater than one week;
II.Establish mechanisms to keep a record of the hours worked and waiting times;
III.Issue weekly receipts of payments made stating the number of tasks, services, works or jobs performed, the time effectively worked, the time during which the employee is at the disposal of the platform for the assignment of a task, service, work or job, the legal withholdings that apply, as the case may be, and other analogous items that result applicable;
IV.Implement mechanisms that guarantee the security of the information and personal data of the employees used from the platform, as well as the exercise of the rights of Access, Rectification, Cancellation, Opposition and Portability of these, in terms of the applicable legislation;
V.Register the employees on digital platforms with the Mexican Social Security Institute and, as the case may be, determine, withhold and remit the payment of employer-employee contributions in the terms established by the provisions on the matter;
VI.Make the corresponding contributions to the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, in terms of the applicable legislation;
VII.Establish the training, capacitation and advisory mechanisms necessary to guarantee the adaptation and the proper use of the digital platforms, in addition to other materials, supplies or tools necessary for their work, when so agreed;
VIII.Inform about the safety and health at work measures that the employees of platforms must consider in the exercise of their labors;
IX.Establish specific mechanisms of attention and follow-up of complaints or reports, regarding lacks of probity or honesty, acts of workplace violence or sexual violence, acts of violence, threats, insults, harassment or sexual harassment, ill-treatment, discriminatory acts or other similar ones, against the employees on digital platforms by reason of their work;
X.Inform the employees on digital platforms of the payment they will receive for each task, service, work or job, breaking down the applicable items in the integration of the payment, and
XI.Provide all the information required by the labor authorities and of any other type, in relation to the provision of services through digital platforms, including, as the case may be, the data of third parties that provide services through the digital platforms.