Article 519 Federal Labor Law

They prescribe in two years:

I.The actions of employees to claim the payment of compensations (indemnities) for occupational hazard;

II.The actions of the beneficiaries in the cases of death due to occupational hazards; and

III.The actions to request the execution of the judgment of the court and of the agreements entered into before it.

The prescription runs, respectively, from the moment in which the degree of disability for work is determined; from the date of the death of the employee, and from the day following that on which the judgment was notified or the agreement was approved. When the judgment imposes the obligation to reinstate, the employer may request the court to fix for the employee a term no greater than thirty days for him to return to work, warning him that if he does not do so, the employer may consider the employment relationship terminated.