Article 590-F Federal Labor Law

The Conciliation Centers of the States (Federal Entities) and of Mexico City, in charge of the conciliation prior to the judicial claim at the local level, established in subsection A of Article 123, section XX, second paragraph of the Constitution, shall be made up and shall function under the terms determined by the local laws, based on the following guidelines:

Each Conciliation Center shall be constituted as a Decentralized Public Body of the respective State (Federal Entity), which shall have the number of delegations that is considered necessary to constitute and shall have legal personality and its own patrimony, as well as full technical, operational, budgetary, decision-making and management autonomy.

They shall be competent to conduct the conciliation procedure to which the employees and employers must go, before filing a claim before the Courts, as established in the second paragraph of section XX of Article 123, subsection A, of the Constitution.

In their action they shall be governed by the principles of certainty, independence, legality, impartiality, equality, reliability, effectiveness, objectivity, professionalism, transparency and publicity. Their makeup and functioning shall be determined in their organic statute and their respective regulation, issued by the Legislative Power of the respective State (Federal Entity) or of Mexico City, as applicable.

Each Center shall have a Governing Body made up of the heads of the agencies or public bodies that the local legislations designate and that safeguard the full exercise of the technical, operational, budgetary, decision-making and management autonomy.

The conciliation it provides must conform to the procedure contemplated in this Law.