Article 517 Federal Labor Law
TITLE TEN. Prescription
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
They prescribe in one month:
I.The actions of employers to dismiss employees, to discipline their faults and to make deductions from their wages; and
II.The actions of employees to separate from work.
In the cases of section I, the prescription runs, respectively, from the day following the date on which the cause of the separation or of the fault is known, from the moment in which the errors committed, or the losses or damages imputable to the employee, are proven, or from the date on which the debt is enforceable.
In the cases of section II, the prescription runs from the date on which the cause of separation is known.