Article 542 Federal Labor Law

The male and female Labor Inspectors have the following obligations:

I.To identify themselves with duly authorized credential, before the employees and the employers;

II.To periodically inspect the companies and establishments;

III.To carry out extraordinary inspections when they are required by their superiors or when they receive any complaint regarding violations of the labor standards;

IV.To record minutes of each inspection they carry out, with intervention of the employees and of the employer, stating the deficiencies and violations of the labor standards, deliver a copy to the parties that have intervened and forward it to the corresponding authority; and

V.The others imposed on them by the laws.

The inspection shall be carried out with special attention when it concerns domestic employees, field employees, migrants, Indigenous and Afro-Mexican persons, persons who belong to a vulnerable group, as well as domestic employees under eighteen years of age.