Article 390 Federal Labor Law

The collective employment contract must be entered into in writing, under penalty of nullity. It shall be made in triplicate, delivering one copy to each one of the parties and depositing the other copy before the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration, before whom each one of the entering parties must designate a domicile. Said center must assign them an electronic mailbox.

The contract shall take effect from the date and hour of presentation of the document, unless the parties have agreed on a different date.

For the registration of an initial collective employment contract, the following documentation shall be presented before the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration:

a)The documentation with which the contracting parties prove their legal capacity;

b)The collective employment contract;

c)The Certificate of Representativeness referred to in Article 390 Bis of this Law, and

d)The scope of application of the collective employment contract.

Once the foregoing documentation has been delivered, the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration must rule on the registration of the collective employment contract within the following thirty days; said resolution shall be notified to the parties.