Article 423 Federal Labor Law
TITLE SEVEN. Collective Employment Relationships · CHAPTER V. Internal work regulation
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The regulation shall contain:
I.- Hours of entry and exit of the employees, time destined for meals and obligatory periods of rest during the working day;
II.Place and moment at which the working days must begin and end;
III.Days and hours fixed for cleaning the establishments, machinery, apparatus and work tools;
IV.Days and places of payment;
V.- Rules that regulate the right of the employees to use seats or chairs with backrest during the working day, in accordance with the provisions of Article 132, section V;
VI.Rules to prevent occupational hazards and instructions to provide first aid;
VII.Unhealthy and dangerous tasks that minors must not perform and the protection that pregnant employees must have;
VIII.- Time and manner in which the employees must submit to medical examinations, prior or periodic, and to the prophylactic measures dictated by the authorities;
IX.Permits and licenses;
X.- Disciplinary provisions and procedures for their application. Suspension from work, as a disciplinary measure, may not exceed eight days. The employee shall have the right to be heard before the sanction is applied, and
XI.The other rules necessary and convenient in accordance with the nature of each company or establishment, to achieve the greatest safety and regularity in the development of the work.