Article 590-B Federal Labor Law

The Federal Center for Labor Conciliation and Registration shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the following guidelines:

It shall be a Decentralized Public Body of the Federal Government, with domicile in Mexico City, and shall have regional offices in accordance with the guidelines established by the Governing Body. It shall have legal personality and its own patrimony, full technical, operational, budgetary, decision-making and management autonomy. It shall be governed by the principles of certainty, independence, legality, impartiality, equality, reliability, effectiveness, objectivity, professionalism, transparency and publicity.

It shall be competent to conduct the conciliation procedure that the employees and employers must exhaust, before going to the Courts, as established in the fifth paragraph of section XX of Article 123, subsection A, of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States.

In addition, it shall be competent to operate the registry of all the collective employment contracts, internal work regulations and the labor union organizations, as well as all the related administrative processes.

The head of the body shall be its Director General. The appointment must fall on a person who has capacity and experience in the matters of the competence of the decentralized body, who, in addition to the provisions of Article 123, subsection A, section XX of the Constitution, must comply with the requirements established by the applicable Law.