Article 980 Federal Labor Law

The preference shall be processed in accordance with the following rules:

I.The preference must be requested by the employee before the Court in which the conflict of which he is a party is processed, specifically indicating the authorities before which trials are being processed in which property of the employer may be adjudicated or auctioned, accompanying sufficient copies of his request, in order to give notice to the opposing parties in the referenced trials;

II.If the trial is processed before the judicial authority, the Court shall give it notice, making known to it that the attached property is subject to the preferential payment of the labor credit and that, therefore, before auctioning or adjudicating the property of the employer, it must notify the employee so that he may appear to assert his rights; and

III.In the case of fiscal credits, contributions owed to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), or contributions to the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute (INFONAVIT), it shall suffice for the Court to send an official letter to the corresponding authority, indicating the existence of labor trials whose benefits are pending payment, so that, before adjudicating or auctioning the property of the employer, it proceed in accordance with the preceding article.