Article 873-I Federal Labor Law
TITLE FOURTEEN. Labor Procedural Law · CHAPTER XVII. On the ordinary procedure · Section Two. Trial Hearing
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The Court shall open the phase of taking of evidence, in accordance with the following:
I.All the evidence that is duly prepared shall be taken, endeavoring that those of the plaintiff be first and then those of the defendant;
II.If any of the admitted evidence is not duly prepared and is in charge of the parties, its desertion shall be declared, except for justified cause, in which case the judge shall set a new day and hour for its taking within the following ten days; for this purpose, he must take the appropriate measures and may make use of the enforcement measures he deems necessary to achieve the taking of the admitted evidence and avoid the delay of the trial, and
III.The judge must require the person who appears to give the corresponding evidence to identify himself with any official document; and, if he does not do so at the moment of the hearing, three days shall be granted to him for this purpose, warning him that otherwise the corresponding statement shall be left without effect.