Article 51 Federal Labor Law

The following are grounds for termination of the employment relationship for cause, without liability for the employee:

I.The employer, or where applicable, the employer association deceiving him when proposing the work, regarding the conditions of the same. This ground for termination for cause shall cease to have effect after thirty days of the employee providing his services;

II.The employer, his family members or any of his representatives incurring, within the service, in failures of probity or honesty, acts of violence, threats, insults, harassment and/or sexual harassment, ill-treatment or other analogous ones, against the employee, spouse, parents, children or siblings;

III.The employer, his family members or employees incurring, outside of the service, in the acts referred to in the preceding section, if they are in such a manner grave that they make the fulfillment of the employment relationship impossible;

IV.The employer reducing the wage of the employee;

V.Not receiving the corresponding wage on the date or place agreed or customary;

VI.Suffering damages maliciously caused by the employer, in his tools or work implements;

VII.The existence of a grave danger for the safety or health of the employee or of his family, whether because the establishment lacks hygienic conditions or because the preventive and safety measures that the laws establish are not complied with;

VIII.The employer compromising, with his inexcusable imprudence or carelessness, the safety of the establishment or of the persons that are found in it; and

IX.Demanding the carrying out of acts, conducts or behaviors that impair or attempt against the dignity of the employee; and

X.Those analogous to those established in the preceding sections, equally grave and of similar consequences, as regards the work.