Article 785 Federal Labor Law

If any person is unable, due to illness or another cause, to appear at the Court's premises to answer interrogatories; recognize the content or signature of a document or give testimony, and justifies it in the judgment of the Court, by means of a medical certificate or other reliable record that he exhibits under protest to tell the truth and indicating the domicile at which the unable person is located, the judge shall arrange what is necessary to produce the evidence at the same hearing, whether at the Court's premises or at the domicile at which said person is located, unless there is an impossibility to do so, which must be fully justified; in this case a new day and hour must be set to produce the evidence within the following three days.

The judge may order the court officer to go immediately in order to verify that the unable person is at the domicile provided.

If the person is not found at the domicile, he shall be declared confessed or the documents referred to in the proceeding shall be deemed recognized or, as the case may be, the evidence shall be deemed abandoned.

The medical certificates must contain the name and professional license number of the person issuing them, the date and the pathological condition that prevents the appearance of the person summoned. Medical certificates issued by public social security institutions do not require ratification.