Article 685 Federal Labor Law

The labor law process is governed by the principles of immediacy, inmediatez, continuity, celerity, veracity, concentration, economy and procedural simplicity. Likewise, it shall be public, free of charge, predominantly oral and conciliatory.

The Courts must guarantee compliance with the cited principles and conditions. The judge must attend to the principle of reality over the formal elements that contradict it. Likewise, the solution of the conflict shall be privileged over procedural formalisms, without affecting due process and the purposes of labor law.

When the claim of the employee is incomplete, in that it does not comprise all the benefits that according to this Law derive from the action brought or that proceeds, in accordance with the facts set forth by the employee, the Court, at the moment of admitting the claim, shall remedy it. The foregoing without prejudice to the fact that when the claim is obscure or vague, it proceeds in the terms provided in article 873 of this Law.