Article 804 Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOURTEEN. Labor Procedural Law · CHAPTER XII. On Evidence · Section Three. On documentary evidence
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The employer has the obligation to keep and exhibit in the proceeding the documents specified below:
I.Individual employment contracts that are entered into, when there is no applicable collective contract or law contract;
II.Payroll lists or personnel payroll records, when they are kept in the work center; or wage payment receipts;
III.Attendance controls, when they are kept in the work center;
IV.Proofs of payment of participation in profits, of paid vacation and of year-end bonus (aguinaldo), as well as the premiums referred to in this Law, and payments, contributions and social security contributions; and
V.The others indicated by the laws.
The documents indicated in section I must be kept while the employment relationship lasts and until one year afterward; those indicated in sections II, III and IV, during the last year and one year after the employment relationship is extinguished; and those mentioned in section V, as indicated by the Laws governing them.