Article 836-B Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOURTEEN. Labor Procedural Law · CHAPTER XII. On Evidence · Section Nine. On the Elements Provided by the Advances of Science.
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
For the taking or assessment of the means of proof referred to in this Section, the following shall be understood as:
a)Certifying Authority: the dependencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration and the certification service providers that, in accordance with the legal provisions, have this quality recognized and have the technological infrastructure for the issuance, administration and registration of digital certificates, as well as to provide services related to them;
b)Access key: the unique set of alphanumeric characters that a user employs to access a service, system or program and that may be associated with a physical, magnetic or biometric medium;
c)Digital Certificate: the digital record issued by a Certifying Authority that guarantees the authenticity of the identity data of the holder of the certificate;
d)Password: the unique set of secret characters that allows validating the identification of the person to whom an Access Key was assigned to enter a service, system or program;
e)Private key: the set of characters that the holder of the digital certificate generates exclusively and secretly to create their advanced electronic signature;
f)Public key: the data contained in a digital certificate that allow the identification of the signer and the verification of the authenticity of their advanced electronic signature;
g)Addressee: the person designated by the sender to receive the data message;
h)Digital Document: the information that can only be generated, consulted, modified and processed by electronic means, and sent through a data message;
i)Sender: the person who sends a digital document or a data message;
j)Electronic signature: Set of data that in electronic form are linked or associated to a data message by any technology and that are used to identify the signer in relation to the data message to indicate that they approve the information contained in the data message;
k)Advanced Electronic Signature: the set of characters that allows the identification of the signer in the electronic documents or in the data messages, as a result of using their digital certificate and private key and that produces the same legal effects as the handwritten signature;
l)Signer: any person who uses their electronic signature or advanced electronic signature to sign digital documents and, where applicable, data messages;
m)Electronic Communication Means: the technological devices to carry out the transmission and reception of data messages and digital documents;
n)Electronic Means: the technological devices for the processing, printing, display, storage, reproduction, recovery, extraction and conservation of the information;
ñ) Data Message: the exchange of information between a sender and a receiver through electronic communication means;
o)Personal identification number (NIP): the password that is used in the services, systems or programs, to obtain access, or identify oneself; and
p)Information system: set of technological elements to generate, send, receive, store or process information.
q)CFDI: Digital Tax Receipt by Internet (Comprobante Fiscal Digital por Internet) or equivalent document in terms of the applicable tax provisions.