Article 590-D Federal Labor Law

The Governing Board of the Federal Center for Labor Conciliation and Registration shall be made up of:

a)The head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare as principal member or his alternate, who shall act as President of said Governing Board;

b)The head of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público) as principal member or his alternate;

c)The head of the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales) as principal member or his alternate;

d)The President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) as principal member or his alternate, and

e)The President of the National Electoral Institute (Instituto Nacional Electoral) as principal member or his alternate.

The alternates shall be appointed by the principal members and must have a rank immediately below said principal members in the agency or public body in question.

It shall validly hold sessions with the attendance of at least half plus one of its members and provided that the one representing the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare is present. The decisions of the Governing Board shall be taken by majority of votes of those who attend its sessions; in case of a tie the President shall have a casting vote.

For the fulfillment of each and every one of the obligations incumbent on the Body established in this Law, the Governing Board shall meet with the periodicity set forth in the organic Statute, which may not be less than four times a year.

The Governing Board may agree to the carrying out of all the operations inherent to the purpose of the entity, subject to the provisions of this Law, and, except for those powers referred to in Article 58 of the Federal Law of Parastatal Entities, it may discretionally delegate its powers to the Director General.

The Governing Board shall have the following non-delegable powers:

I.To establish, in congruence with the sectoral programs, the general policies and define the priorities to which the Body must be subject regarding the provision of the public services that correspond to it under the terms of this Law, on productivity, finances, research, technological development and general administration;

II.To approve the programs and budgets of the Body, as well as their modifications, under the terms of the applicable legislation. As regards the budgets and the financial programs, except for those included in the Annual Budget of Expenditures of the Federation, the approval of the Governing Board itself shall suffice;

III.To issue the general rules or bases in accordance with which, when necessary, the Director General may dispose of the fixed assets of the entity that do not correspond to the operations proper to its purpose;

IV.To approve annually, prior report of the statutory examiners, and opinion of the external auditors, the financial statements of the Body and to authorize their publication;

V.To approve the basic structure of the organization of the Body, and any modifications thereto. To approve, as the case may be, the organic statute of said body, under the following criteria:

a)In the basic structure of the Body, it must contemplate the installation and functioning of its Delegations in all the states (federal entities), except in Mexico City, on the grounds that it has established its Headquarters and principal legal domicile in said city;

b)It must have sufficient and adequate personnel, as well as a Specialized Office of Advisory Services for the employees, so that it assists them in the conciliation;

VI.To appoint and remove, at the proposal of the Director General, the public officials of the body who hold positions with the two administrative ranks below that of the latter, to approve the setting of their salaries and benefits, in accordance with the corresponding legal, budgetary and administrative provisions;

VII.To appoint and remove, at the proposal of its President, from among persons outside the entity, the Secretary, who may or may not be a member of the same; as well as to designate or remove, at the proposal of the Director General of the entity, the Deputy Secretary of the aforementioned Governing Board, who may or may not be a member of said body or of the entity;

VIII.To analyze and approve, as the case may be, the periodic reports rendered by the Director General with the intervention that corresponds to the statutory examiners, and

IX.The other powers expressly established in this Law.