Article 712 Federal Labor Law

When the employee is unaware of the name of the employer or of the corporate name or business name where he works or worked, he must specify at least in his complaint the domicile of the company, establishment, office or place where he provided or provides the work and the activity to which the employer is dedicated.

The sole presentation of the complaint or of the conciliation instance, in the terms of the preceding paragraph, interrupts the statute of limitations with respect to whoever turns out to be the employee's employer.

If the defendant no longer has his domicile where the services were provided, the employee shall make it known to the Court, so that it may send official letters to the agencies it deems pertinent, to locate the new domicile of the defendant. The Court shall order the carrying out of any proceeding, among which it may send official letters to institutions that have an official registry of persons so that the name of the defendant and his location are obtained. Once the necessary information is obtained, the summons shall be carried out.

If the information that allows the Court to know the domicile of the defendant is not obtained, notification shall proceed by edicts and on the Internet site established for that purpose by the federal or local Judiciary when it concerns persons whose domicile is unknown, upon report of an institution that has an official registry of persons. In this case, the proceeding shall continue its course and the right that should have been exercised shall be deemed lost, without prejudice to the defendant party being able, before the preliminary hearing, to offer evidence to the contrary to demonstrate that the plaintiff was not an employee or employer; that the dismissal did not exist or that the facts affirmed by the plaintiff party are not true.

In this case, the edicts shall be published twice, with a lapse of three days between one and the other, making known that the cited person must appear, within a term that shall not be less than fifteen days nor exceed sixty days. Likewise, they shall be published in the official dissemination medium of the Court, including its Internet portal.