Article 571 Federal Labor Law

In setting the minimum wages referred to in the first paragraph of Article 570, the following rules shall be observed:

I.Employees and employers shall have a term that expires on the last day of November to submit the studies they deem convenient;

II.The Technical Directorate shall present to the consideration of the Council of Representatives, at the latest on the last day of November, the Report referred to in section V of Article 562 of this Law;

III.The Council of Representatives, during the month of December and before the last working day of that month, shall issue a resolution setting the minimum wages, after studying the report of the Technical Directorate, and the opinions, studies and investigations submitted by employees and employers. For that purpose it may directly conduct the investigations and studies it deems convenient and request complementary information from the Technical Directorate;

IV.The National Commission shall state in its resolution the grounds that justify it; and

V.Once the resolution is issued, the President of the Commission shall order its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), which must be made at the latest on the thirty-first of December.