Article 685 Ter Federal Labor Law

The following are excepted from exhausting the conciliation instance, when dealing with conflicts inherent to:

I.Discrimination in employment and occupation due to pregnancy, as well as for reasons of sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnic origin, social condition or sexual harassment;

II.Designation of beneficiaries due to death;

III.Social security benefits for occupational hazards, maternity, illnesses, disability, life, day-care centers and benefits in kind and work accidents;

IV.The protection of fundamental rights and public freedoms, both of a labor nature, understood in these areas those related to:

a)The freedom of association, union freedom and the effective recognition of collective bargaining;

b)Labor trafficking, as well as forced and compulsory labor, and

c)Child labor.

For the actualization of these exceptions, the existence of indications that generate in the court the reasonable suspicion, appearance or presumption that any of these rights are being violated must be accredited;

V.The dispute of the ownership of collective contracts or law contracts, and

VI.The contestation of the statutes of the labor unions or their modification.