Article 391 Federal Labor Law
TITLE SEVEN. Collective Employment Relationships · CHAPTER III. Collective employment contract
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The collective employment contract shall contain:
I.The names and addresses of the contracting parties;
II.The companies and establishments that it covers;
III.Its duration or the expression that it is for an undetermined time or for determined work;
IV.The working days;
V.The days of rest and paid vacation;
VI.The amount of the wages;
VII.The clauses relating to the training or instruction of the employees in the company or establishments that it covers;
VIII.Provisions on the initial training or instruction that must be given to those who are going to enter to work in the company or establishment;
IX.The bases for the integration and operation of the Commissions that must be integrated in accordance with this Law; and,
X.The other stipulations that the parties agree upon.
Collective employment contracts may not contain an exclusion clause by separation, understood as such the one that establishes that those employees who cease to belong to the labor union by resignation or expulsion from it, may be separated from their employment without responsibility for the employer.
The Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration (Centro Federal de Conciliación y Registro Laboral) shall issue to whoever requests it in writing and pays the corresponding fees, a certified copy of the most recent text of the collective employment contract and/or wage scales that has been registered.
At the request of the parties, the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration, within the three days following its filing, shall issue the Certificate of Registration of the Collective Employment Contract, which shall contain:
I.Number or folio of the registration file;
II.The contracting parties;
III.Address, and where applicable the electronic mailbox of each of the parties;
IV.Scope of application of the Contract;
V.Date of the last review, and
VI.Period of validity of the collective employment contract and its wage scale.