Article 427 Federal Labor Law

The following are causes of temporary suspension of the employment relationships in a company or establishment:

I.Force majeure or fortuitous event not attributable to the employer, or his physical or mental incapacity or his death, that produces as a necessary, immediate and direct consequence, the suspension of the work;

II.The lack of raw material, not attributable to the employer;

III.The excess of production in relation to its economic conditions and to the circumstances of the market;

IV.The unprofitability, of a temporary, notorious and manifest nature, of the operation;

V.The lack of funds and the impossibility of obtaining them for the normal continuation of the work, if it is fully proven by the employer; and

VI.The failure of the State to provide the amounts that it has obligated itself to deliver to the companies with which it has contracted work or services, provided that these are indispensable; and

VII.The suspension of tasks or work, declared by the competent health authority, in the cases of health contingency.