LFT · Article 7

Article 7 Federal Labor Law

TITLE ONE. General Principles

Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026

In every enterprise or establishment, the employer must employ at least ninety percent Mexican employees. In the categories of technicians and professionals, the employees must be Mexicans, unless there are none in a determined specialty, in which case the employer may temporarily employ foreign employees, in a proportion that does not exceed ten percent of those of the specialty. The employer and the foreign employees shall have the joint obligation to train Mexican employees in the specialty in question. The physicians at the service of the enterprises must be Mexicans.

The provisions of this article are not applicable to the directors, administrators and general managers.

How to cite

Federal Labor Law, Article 7. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-labor-law/article-7/

Cite the Spanish official text. Use this English page as a reading aid.

Corpus 2026.10.08