Article 561 Federal Labor Law

The Technical Directorate has the following duties and attributions:

I.To carry out the technical studies necessary and appropriate to determine the division of the Republic in geographic areas, formulate an opinion and propose it to the Council of Representatives;

II.To propose to the Council of Representatives modifications to the Division of the Republic in geographic areas and to the integration of the same; provided that there exist circumstances that justify it;

III.To carry out the investigations and conduct the studies necessary and appropriate so that the Council of Representatives can set the minimum wages;

IV.To suggest the setting of the professional minimum wages;

V.To regularly publish the fluctuations occurring in the prices and their repercussions on the cost of living for the main localities of the country;

VI.To resolve, upon prior order of the President, the consultations formulated to it in relation to the fluctuations of the prices and their repercussions on the purchasing power of the wages;

VII.To support the technical works and investigations of the Consultative Commissions; and

VIII.The others conferred on it by the laws.