Article 731 Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOURTEEN. Labor Procedural Law · CHAPTER V. On the Proceedings of the Courts
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The judge may employ any of the necessary means of enforcement, so that persons attend the hearings in which their presence is indispensable or to ensure compliance with his resolutions.
The means of enforcement that may be employed are:
I.Fine, which may not exceed 200 times the Measurement and Updating Unit at the moment in which the contempt was committed. In the case of employees, the fine may not exceed the amount of their day's wage or salary. For the purposes of this article, agents and public officials who fail to comply or are remiss with a judicial requirement or order shall not be considered employees.
II.Presentation of the person with the assistance of the public security forces; and
III.Arrest for up to thirty-six hours.