Article 518 Federal Labor Law
TITLE TEN. Prescription
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The actions of employees who are separated from work prescribe in two months.
The prescription runs from the day following the date of the separation.
This term shall be suspended from the date of presentation of the conciliation request referred to in article 684-B of this Law, and shall resume on the day following that on which any of the hypotheses provided in article 521, section III of this Law occurs.
As regards the exercise of the jurisdictional actions referred to in the first paragraph, the provisions of section III of article 521 of this legal instrument shall be observed.