Article 772 Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOURTEEN. Labor Procedural Law · CHAPTER XI. On the Continuation of the Proceedings and on Lapse
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
When, in order to continue the processing of the proceeding in the terms of the preceding article, an application by the employee is necessary and the employee has not made it within a period of forty-five calendar days, the Court must order that the employee be personally summoned to present it, warning him that, if he does not do so, the lapse referred to in the following article shall operate.
If the employee is represented by an Attorney for the Defense of Labor, the Court shall notify the agreement in question to the employee and to the Attorney's Office for the Defense of Labor, for the corresponding effects. If he is not represented by the Attorney's Office, the agreement shall be made known to it, for the purpose that it intervene before the employee and explain to him the legal consequences of the failure to make such application, as well as to provide him legal advice in case the employee requests it.