Article 5 Federal Labor Law

The provisions of this Law are of public order, therefore the stipulation that establishes the following shall not produce legal effect, nor prevent the enjoyment and exercise of the rights, whether written or verbal:

I.Work for adolescents under fifteen years of age;

II.A working day longer than that permitted by this Law;

III.An inhuman working day for being notoriously excessive, given the nature of the work, in the judgment of the Court;

IV.Overtime hours for minors under eighteen years of age;

V.A wage lower than the minimum;

VI.A wage that is not remunerative, in the judgment of the Court;

VII.A term longer than one week for the payment of wages to the laborers and to the rural workers;

VIII.A place of recreation, eating house, tavern, café, bar or store, to make the payment of wages, provided that they are not employees of those establishments;

IX.The direct or indirect obligation to obtain consumer articles in a determined store or place;

X.The employer's power to withhold the wage by way of fine;

XI.A wage lower than that which is paid to another employee in the same enterprise or establishment for work of equal efficiency, in the same class of work or equal working day, by consideration of age, sex or nationality;

XII.Industrial night work or work after twenty-two hours, for minors under sixteen years of age; and

XIII.Waiver by the employee of any of the rights or prerogatives set forth in the labor rules.

XIV.To conceal an employment relationship with simulated legal acts in order to avoid compliance with labor and/or social security obligations, and

XV.To register an employee with a wage lower than the one he actually receives.

In all these cases it shall be understood that the Law or the supplementary rules govern in place of the null clauses.