Transitory provisions

Article 1º.- This Law shall enter into force on 1 May 1970, with the exception of Articles 71 and 87, which shall enter into force on 1 July 1970, and Article 80, which shall enter into force on 1 September 1970.

Article 2º.- The Federal Labor Law of 18 August 1931 is repealed, with the modalities referred to in the preceding article.

Article 3º.- Individual or collective employment contracts that establish rights, benefits or prerogatives in favor of employees, inferior to those that this Law grants them, shall produce no legal effect hereafter, it being understood that the respective clauses are substituted by those established by this Law.

Individual or collective employment contracts or agreements that establish rights, benefits or prerogatives in favor of employees, superior to those that this Law grants them, shall continue to produce their effects.

Article 4º.- In the application of Article 159, in relation to Article 132, section XV, the collective employment contracts that contain systems of professional training already functioning on the date of publication of this Law, and those in which examination requirements or the practical verification of the aptitude and of the possession of the adequate knowledge are established in order that the employees may be promoted in the cases of vacancies or newly created positions in accordance with the seniority to which they are entitled, may continue to be applied.

Article 5º.- For the payment of the seniority premium referred to in Article 162 to the employees who are already rendering their services to an enterprise on the date on which this Law enters into force, the following norms shall be observed:

I.Employees who have seniority of less than ten years, who voluntarily separate from their employment within the year following the date on which this Law enters into force, shall have the right to be paid twelve days of wage;

II.Those who have seniority of greater than ten and less than twenty years, who voluntarily separate from their employment within the two years following the date referred to in the preceding section, shall have the right to be paid twenty-four days of wage;

III.Those who have seniority of greater than twenty years and who voluntarily separate from their employment within the three years following the date referred to in the preceding sections shall have the right to be paid thirty-six days of wage;

IV.Once the terms referred to in the preceding sections have elapsed, the provisions of Article 162 shall apply; and

V.Employees who are separated from their employment or who separate with justified cause within the year following the date on which this Law enters into force shall have the right to be paid twelve days of wage. Once the year has elapsed, whatever the date of the separation, they shall have the right to the premium to which they are entitled for the years that may have elapsed from the date on which this Law enters into force.

Article 6º.- The childcare centers installed in the enterprises or establishments shall continue to function until the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) takes charge of them.

Article 7º.- The review of the Resolution of 13 December 1963 issued by the National Commission for the Participation of Employees in the Profits of Enterprises (Comisión Nacional para la Participación de los Trabajadores en las Utilidades de las Empresas) may not proceed until ten years, counted from the cited date, have elapsed.

Article 8º.- In the case of enterprises registered with the Mexican Social Security Institute, the obligations set forth in Article 504 shall be borne by the enterprises, to the extent that the Institute is not obligated to render them in accordance with its Law.

Article 9º.- The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, the Governors of the States and Territories, and the Head of the Department of the Federal District (Departamento del Distrito Federal) shall reorganize the Permanent Conciliation Boards (Juntas de Conciliación Permanentes) and the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, in accordance with the provisions of this Law, within a term of three months, counted from the date of its entry into force.

Article 10.- The same authorities referred to in the preceding article shall reorganize the remaining labor authorities, in accordance with the provisions of this Law, within the same term of three months.

Article 11.- The requirements indicated in Articles 626, section II; 627, section II; 628, sections II and III, and 629 of Title Twelve shall not be demanded of the legal personnel indicated in Article 625 who hold the base category and who, at the time this Law enters into force, render their services in the Conciliation Boards (Juntas de Conciliación) and in the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards.

Article 12.- The proceedings pending before the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards shall continue to be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Labor Law of 18 August 1931, until the reorganization referred to in Article 9o. of the Transitory Provisions is carried out. Once the reorganization has been carried out, the proceedings shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of this Law; the Board shall notify the parties of the moment at which the processing shall be subject to the procedures established in this Law.

In the proceedings pending before the Conciliation Boards, the evidence that the parties may have offered shall be received and the case file shall be remitted to the Permanent Conciliation Board or to the Conciliation and Arbitration Board that corresponds.

The Conciliation and Arbitration Boards shall continue to take cognizance of the matters referred to in Article 600, section IV, of which they already have cognizance.

Article 13.- The Regional Commissions (Comisiones Regionales) and the National Minimum Wage Commission (Comisión Nacional de los Salarios Mínimos) are empowered to establish the increase of the general, field and professional minimum wages in force.

To carry out the leveling of the minimum wages referred to in the preceding paragraph, the following procedure shall be observed:

I.Within the three days following the entry into force of this decree, the regional commissions on Minimum Wages shall issue a resolution establishing the increase of the minimum wages.

II.The presidents of the regional commissions shall, under their responsibility, communicate to the National Minimum Wage Commission the corresponding resolutions within the 24 hours following the date on which they were issued.

III.The President of the National Minimum Wage Commission shall convene the Council of Representatives (Consejo de Representantes) and submit to it the pertinent opinion so that, within the three days following the receipt of the communications referred to in the preceding section, they issue a resolution confirming or modifying those that the regional commissions may have issued, and must fix the increase to be applied to the minimum wages in force, so that they are modified on a mandatory basis taking into account the provisions of the resolution issued by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare dated 19 March 1982.

IV.The President of the National Minimum Wage Commission shall send to the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), for its publication, the resolution of the Council of Representatives containing the minimum wages corresponding to the established increase.

Article added DOF 22-10-1982

SOLE.- This Decree shall enter into force on 20 March 1998.

ARTICLE ONE.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

ARTICLE TWO.- Due to the commemoration in the year 2006 of the birth of Don Benito Juárez García, Meritorious of the Americas, section III shall be in force as of the year 2007.

First. This decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

Second. As of the date on which this Decree enters into force, the provisions that contravene or oppose it are left without effect.

First. This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

Second. The employers shall have thirty-six months from the entry into force of this Decree, to carry out the adaptations to the installations of the workplaces, in order to facilitate the access and development of activities of persons with disabilities.

Likewise, the employers shall have twelve months from the entry into force of this Decree, to proceed to carry out the procedures conducive to affiliating the workplace with the National Fund for the Consumption of Employees (Instituto del Fondo Nacional para el Consumo de los Trabajadores).

Third. The Head of the Federal Executive, the Governors of the States, as well as the Head of Government of the Federal District, within the scope of their respective competences, shall have a term of six months, to adapt the regulatory instruments that correspond, to the provisions contained in this Decree.

Fourth. The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall issue the tables of occupational diseases and of valuation of permanent disabilities resulting from occupational hazards, within a term of six months counted from the entry into force of this Decree, and in the meantime the tables referred to in Articles 513 and 514 that are amended shall continue to be applied.

Fifth. The States (federal entities), within the scope of their respective competences, shall have a term of up to three years to transform the Conciliation Boards into Local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, for which purpose they must include within their corresponding budgets the economic resources sufficient to guarantee the implementation, functioning and operation. These budgets must be analyzed and approved, as the case may be, by the corresponding Legislative Power.

Sixth. The Federal and Local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards shall adopt the professional career service referred to in Article 525-Bis of the Law, in accordance with their legal regime as of the first day of the month of January of the year 2014.

Seventh. The Presidents of the Federal and Local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards shall establish the guidelines for the system of formation, capacitation and legal updating of the personnel of their respective Board within the six months following the entry into force of these amendments.

Eighth. The Public Conciliation Service shall be integrated no later than the budget year following the one in which these amendments enter into force.

Ninth. The Auxiliary Attorneys for the Defense of Labor that do not have the professional title and license referred to in Article 533 shall have a term of five years to obtain it, counted from the entry into force of these amendments.

The Labor Inspectors that do not have the certificate of higher secondary education or its equivalent referred to in Article 546, section II, shall have a term of three years to obtain it, from the entry into force of these amendments.

The legal personnel of the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards that does not have the professional title and license referred to in Articles 626, section II; 627, section II; 627-B, section II; 628, section II and 629 shall have a term of five years to obtain it, counted from the entry into force of these amendments.

Tenth. The remunerations referred to in Article 631 shall enter into force as of the next Budget of Expenditures of the Federation and of the states (federal entities).

Eleventh. The proceedings initiated with the provisions prior to this amendment must be concluded in accordance with them.

Twelfth. The suppression of the Permanent Conciliation Boards shall take effect ninety calendar days following the one in which this Decree enters into force.

The competent authorities shall carry out the actions conducive so that the matters that were in process are attended to by the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards that correspond.

The competent authorities shall adopt the administrative measures corresponding with respect to the personnel of the Permanent Conciliation Boards that are extinguished.

Thirteenth. The Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board shall establish the registry of medical experts in the matter of occupational medicine referred to in Article 899-G of this Decree, within the thirty days following its entry into force.

The medical experts in the matter of occupational medicine shall have a period of six months, from the moment the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board establishes the registry referred to in the preceding paragraph, to obtain the corresponding registry; once the indicated term has elapsed, the Board shall not receive the expert reports that experts that lack a registry issue.

Fourteenth. The expenditures that are generated by reason of the entry into force of this Decree shall be made charged to the approved budget of expenditures, for which no additional resources shall be required in the present fiscal year, nor shall the regularizable budget be increased.

Sole. This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

Sole.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

FIRST. This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

SECOND. The head of the Federal Executive, the governors of the states, as well as the Head of Government of Mexico City, within the scope of their respective competences, shall have a term of six months to adapt the legal and regulatory instruments that correspond, with the purpose of complying with and harmonizing them with the provisions contained in this Decree.

THIRD. The authorities of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), of the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Employees (Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado) and other Social Security institutions, shall make the corresponding adaptations to their internal normativity during the following six months, counted from the issuance of this Decree.

First. Effectiveness. This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

Second. Deadline for issuing the Organic Law of the Federal Center. Within the one hundred eighty days following the entry into force of this Decree, the Congress of the Union shall issue the Organic Law of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration (Centro Federal de Conciliación y Registro Laboral).

Third. Deadline for the commencement of functions of the Registry Authority. The Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration shall commence its functions regarding the registration of union associations and collective employment contracts within a period of no more than two years from the entry into force of this Decree, taking into account budgetary possibilities.

On the day following the day on which the registration service of the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards is suspended, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and, where applicable, the Executive Branches of the States (federal entities), the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration shall commence operations.

Until the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration commences its registry functions, the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, as well as the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, shall continue with the registry functions provided for in the Federal Labor Law in force at the time of the entry into force of this Decree.

Fourth. Transfer of Registry Files. For purposes of the transfer of files for the registration of union associations, collective employment contracts, internal work regulations and related administrative procedures, the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and the Executive Branches of the States (federal entities) shall send to the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration a complete list of all files and registrations in their possession, with electronic support for each registration or file, at least six months in advance of the commencement of its functions.

For the foregoing purpose, said authorities shall establish and publish the dates on which they will suspend their registry functions and those of the Federal Center referred to shall begin, guaranteeing that the rights of the interested parties are not affected.

The physical transfer of the files of all federal and local agencies shall conclude within a period of no more than one year after the commencement of the registry functions of said Federal Center; said Center shall establish the appropriate coordination mechanisms with the aforementioned authorities and shall issue the necessary guidelines to guarantee that the transfer of files and registrations is carried out under conditions that provide security, certainty, accuracy, transparency, publicity and reliability to the delivery-receipt procedure.

Fifth. Deadline for the commencement of functions of the Local Conciliation Authority and Local Courts. The local Conciliation Centers and the Courts of the Judiciary of the States (federal entities) shall commence activities no later than 3 October 2022, in terms of what their own regulations and budgetary possibilities establish, in accordance with what their local branches of government determine. The local Conciliation Centers shall begin operations in each state (federal entity) on the same date as the Local Courts, in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Decree.

Article amended DOF 18-05-2022

Sixth. Deadline for the commencement of functions of the Federal Conciliation Authority and Federal Courts. Within a maximum period of four years from the entry into force of this Decree, each delegation or regional office of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration shall begin processing the conciliation requests within its competence at the same time as the Courts of the Federal Judiciary commence their operation in the judicial circuit to which they correspond. Each judicial circuit shall commence its functions in the order and sequence determined in the declarations issued by the Senate, upon a proposal of the Federal Judiciary Council (Consejo de la Judicatura Federal), in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Decree.

Seventh. Matters in Process. The procedures in process before the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and the federal and local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards shall be concluded by the latter in accordance with the provisions in force at the time of their commencement.

The Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration and the Local Conciliation Centers shall not admit for processing requests for conciliation hearings or summonses with respect to procedures being substantiated before the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, including those of enforcement, and therefore said requests shall be filed.

Eighth. Matters initiated after the Decree. The federal and local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards, as well as the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, as applicable, shall continue to hear the individual, collective and registry procedures initiated after the entry into force of this Decree, until the federal and local Courts and the Conciliation Centers commence functions, in accordance with the time limits set forth in the transitory provisions of this Decree.

Until the Conciliation Centers commence functions, the Attorney's Office for the Defense of Labor (Procuraduría de la Defensa del Trabajo) shall retain the power to summon the employers or labor unions to settlement or conciliation hearings, warning them that if they fail to appear at said proceedings, the enforcement measure referred to in section I of article 731 of the Federal Labor Law shall be imposed on them, under the condition that if the applicant for the service does not attend the settlement or conciliation hearing, the application shall be deemed abandoned without liability for the Attorney's Office, unless the applicant proves that there was justified cause for not appearing.

Said procedures shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Labor Law and other laws in force prior to this Decree. For such purposes they shall be provided with the necessary budgetary resources.

Ninth. Inadmissibility of Accumulation of Proceedings. When a trial is in process in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Labor Law in force prior to the entry into force of this Decree and another is substantiated in accordance with the provisions of this Decree, the accumulation of trials shall not proceed.

Tenth. Processing of Procedures and Trials. Once the Conciliation Centers and Courts begin operations, the procedures and trials shall be heard before them in accordance with this Decree, as applicable.

Eleventh. Legitimization of Collective Employment Contracts. In order to comply with the mandate of article 123, subsection A, section XVIII, second paragraph and XX Bis of the Constitution and the international commitments assumed by the Mexican State, the existing collective employment contracts shall be reviewed at least once during the four years following the entry into force of this Decree.

The aforementioned contractual reviews shall be filed with the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration. Said Center shall verify that the content of the collective employment contract was made known to the employees and that the employer delivered a printed copy thereof to them; likewise, that this contract has the support of the majority of the employees through a personal, free and secret vote.

The consultation of the employees shall be carried out in accordance with the procedure established in article 390 Ter of this Law.

If at the end of the period set in the first paragraph of this article the collective employment contract subject to consultation does not have the majority support of the employees or the aforementioned consultation is omitted, it shall be deemed terminated, keeping for the benefit of the employees the benefits and working conditions contemplated in the collective employment contract subject to review that are superior to those established in this Law, which shall be of mandatory application for the employer.

Until the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration commences functions, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall establish the protocol to carry out the verification of the consultation referred to in this transitory article and shall provide the necessary measures for its implementation, within a period of three months following the entry into force of this Decree. The Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board shall have the participation that said protocol establishes for it.

Twelfth. Provisions for the application of the Reform. The Congress of the Union and the Legislatures of the states (federal entities) shall allocate the necessary resources for the implementation of the reform of the labor justice system.

Thirteenth. Implementation and Training. In the implementation of the provisions referred to in this Decree and thereafter, the Conciliating Authorities and the Courts of the Federal Judiciary and of the states (federal entities) shall incorporate in their training and education programs, methodologies and content to provide attention and advice on the protection of human rights to persons in situations of vulnerability.

Fourteenth. First Session of the Governing Board of the Federal Center. The person holding the office of head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, in their capacity as President of the Governing Board of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration, shall convene the first session of said body within the ninety calendar days following the date of designation of its head.

Fifteenth. Personnel Selection Competitions. The calls for competition for the selection of personnel of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration, of the Local Conciliation Centers and of the Courts of the Federal Judiciary and of the states (federal entities) shall be open in character and shall guarantee the right to participate under equal opportunities to the personnel of the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards.

Sixteenth. Work Plan and Program for the Conclusion of the Matters in Process. Within the one hundred twenty calendar days following the approval of this Decree, the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board and the Local Conciliation and Arbitration Boards shall present to the Coordination Council for the Implementation of the Reform to the Labor Justice System (Consejo de Coordinación para la Implementación de la Reforma al Sistema de Justicia Laboral), a work plan with its respective program for the conclusion of the matters in process and the effective enforcement of the awards, as well as for the closure and conclusion of the work in a gradual and progressive manner of said bodies.

The work plans and programs shall contain result and performance indicators for six-month periods. The Internal Control Body of each Conciliation and Arbitration Board shall be responsible for the measurement of results and impact referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Seventeenth. Inter-institutional coordination for the implementation of the reform. The Coordination Council for the Implementation of the Reform to the Labor Justice System is created as the national instance for consultation, planning and coordination whose purpose shall be to establish the national policy and coordination necessary to implement at the federal and local level the Labor Justice System in the terms set forth in this Decree, with full respect for the attributions of the Federal and Local Branches of Government.

Said Council shall meet ordinarily at least three times a year and extraordinarily on as many occasions as are necessary for the fulfillment of its purposes. The sessions shall be presided over by the person holding the office of head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and, in their temporary absence, by the person they designate. The positions held by the members of the Council shall be honorary, and therefore they shall not receive any remuneration for their participation in it.

The Council shall be composed of:

I.Federal Executive Branch:

a)The person holding the office of head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, and

b)The person holding the office of head of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público).

The absences of the latter shall be filled by the public officials they designate, with the immediately lower hierarchical level.

II.One representative of the Federal Judiciary designated by the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation;

III.One representative of the National Conference of Governors;

IV.One representative of the National Commission of Superior Courts of Justice, and

V.One representative of the National Conference of Labor Secretaries.

With the purpose of fulfilling its object, the Council shall have the following attributions:

I.Issue the agreements, guidelines, norms, procedures and other normative instruments necessary for the due fulfillment of its object, binding on its members;

II.Prepare the policies, programs and mechanisms necessary to implement, at the federal and local level, a national strategy for the implementation of the Labor Justice System, which contemplates the programming of commitments and stages of development;

III.Design criteria for the implementation of the legal and normative adjustments necessary to comply with its object;

IV.Propose to the corresponding instances the organizational changes, the construction and operation of the infrastructure that may be required;

V.Issue the guidelines for the evaluation and follow-up of the actions derived from the policies, programs and mechanisms indicated in section II of this article;

VI.Assist in the preparation of the training and dissemination programs on the Labor Justice System directed to judges, labor prosecutors, public defenders and advisors, conciliators, experts, attorneys, public officials involved, representatives of employees and employers, educational institutions, as well as society in general;

VII.Cooperate with the Congress of the Union and the Legislatures of the States (federal entities) in the follow-up and evaluation of the budgetary resources exercised in the implementation and operation of the Labor Justice System;

VIII.Prepare the criteria for the signing of inter-institutional collaboration agreements; as well as the coordination agreements with the governments of the states (federal entities) and international cooperation agreements;

IX.Analyze the reports sent to it by the Technical Secretariat on the progress of its activities;

X.Interpret the provisions of this article and its legal scope, as well as address the consultations that arise by reason of its application, and

XI.The others that are required for the fulfillment of its object.

The Council shall have a Technical Secretariat, sectorized under the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, which shall operate and execute the agreements and determinations taken by the Council, as well as cooperate with and provide the support required by the corresponding authorities and instances for the implementation of the Labor Justice System. Said Technical Secretariat shall be in charge of a public official with the level of Head of Unit, appointed and, where applicable, removed by the person holding the office of head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

Within the forty-five days following the entry into force of this Decree, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall issue the operating guidelines and the call for the first session of this Council.

Eighteenth. Reduction of the Backlog. Public bodies and entities shall establish internal conciliation instances to conclude the backlog of trials processed before the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards.

Nineteenth. Provisions for the conclusion of social security conflicts. The social security institutes shall adopt the necessary administrative provisions to establish internal instances for self-composition in the individual social security conflicts referred to in this Decree.

Twentieth. Protection of the rights of the Employees. The labor rights of the employees of the institutions involved in this transition shall be fully respected. The authorities shall carry out all actions of an administrative character to guarantee that social security rights are protected and preserved, in accordance with the applicable laws.

Twenty-First. Implementation of Information Technologies. The Courts, as well as the Conciliation Centers referred to in this Decree, shall have the electronic systems to guarantee that the procedures under their charge are agile and effective. Likewise, they shall create the electronic platforms that will host the electronic mailboxes and digital applications necessary to operate connectivity by electronic means with the labor authorities.

Twenty-Second. Deadline for compliance with the provisions of articles 390 Bis and 390 Ter. The union organizations shall have a maximum period of one year from the entry into force of this Decree to adapt their consultation procedures to the norms established in articles 390 Bis and 390 Ter of the Federal Labor Law.

Twenty-Third. Adaptation of the union statutes. The provisions set forth in article 371 of the Federal Labor Law for the election of the union boards through the personal, free, direct and secret vote of the employees shall begin their validity within a period of two hundred forty days from the entry into force of this Decree. Likewise, within the same period the union organizations shall adapt their statutes to the provisions set forth in said article and other applicable provisions of the aforementioned Law.

Twenty-Fourth. Declaration of the Senate and of the Local Congresses. The Courts of the Federal Judiciary and the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration shall commence functions in each state (federal entity) once the Senate issues the corresponding declaration. The Local Courts and the local Conciliation Centers shall commence functions once the respective Local Legislature makes the corresponding declaration.

The foregoing shall be published in the corresponding official media of dissemination.

Twenty-Fifth. Domestic employees. Section IV of article 337 of this Decree on matters of domestic work shall begin its validity once the normative adjustments necessary for the formal incorporation of domestic employees into the mandatory social security regime are approved and enter into force, in accordance with the resolution of Direct Amparo 9/2018 (related to Direct Amparo 8/2018), issued by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. Those domestic employees who are registered with the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) shall not be subject to articles 338 and 339 of this Law.

Twenty-Sixth. Platform on matters of social security for consultation by the Court. The information platform referred to in article 899-E shall be operated by the corresponding public social security institutions.

The databases belonging to each institution shall be linked to one another and shall be concentrated in said platform for immediate consultation by the Court that requires it. The social security institutions and the federal and local Judiciaries shall sign the collaboration agreements necessary for the adequate operation of the platform, as well as for the protection of the personal data it concentrates.

The information contained in the platform shall be updated and duly registered by each social security institution.

The platform shall begin operations within a period of no more than two years following the entry into force of this Decree, and therefore the social security institutions shall take the appropriate measures for its implementation within the required period.

Twenty-Seventh. Representatives of the employees and of the employers before the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards. In the event that the designation of a representative of employees or employers before the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards is necessary while they continue their operation, the head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall make the corresponding designations for the period that results necessary for the said instances to conclude their functions.

Likewise, should the employee and employer representatives incur any type of liability, the sanctions contained in the Federal Labor Law in force shall be applicable to them.

Twenty-Eighth. Express and implied repeal of incompatible provisions. The legal, administrative and regulatory provisions that oppose those contained in this Decree are repealed.

First.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- The resources for fiscal year 2019 shall be obtained from the subsections specified in this Decree and subsequently the resources that are required shall be guaranteed, earmarked and provisioned in advance by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in the Federal Expenditure Budgets of the corresponding fiscal years, and on the understanding that the implementation of such program shall not in any way impact the employer-employee contributions collected by the Social Security Institutes of the Federal Government.

First.- Publish in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- In compliance with the resolution of Direct Amparo 9/2018 (related to Direct Amparo 8/2018), issued by the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, and derived from the results yielded by the evaluation of the so-called Pilot Program that the Mexican Social Security Institute has implemented since 1 April 2019, in terms of the obligation thus imposed by the highest Constitutional Court on the referred Institute, the latter shall share with the Legislature a preliminary report, once the 18 months of the referred Program have elapsed, in which it shall include in general terms the progress achieved and problems encountered, which shall serve as the basis for the legal initiatives that will in due course define in greater detail the aspects of supervision, inspection, minimum wages by trade, as well as the administrative formalities considered necessary to achieve the certainty and full effectiveness that is required.

Third.- As a consequence of what is referred to in the preceding Transitory provision, the provisions relating to the formal incorporation of domestic employees into the mandatory social security regime shall begin their validity once the legal adjustments and reservations necessary to give complete operability to the recognition of the right referred to in this Decree are made, and must be fully concluded within a period of no more than 6 months counted from the completion of the Pilot Program and delivery to the Legislature of the report mentioned in the cited preceding provision.

Fourth.- Until the provisions contained in this Decree referring to the Social Security Law enter into force in order to include domestic work in the mandatory regime, the employer shall guarantee medical care and the expenses for burial.

First.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- The Federal Executive Branch shall have a period of eighteen months counted from the entry into force of this Decree, to publish an Official Mexican Standard governing the obligations on matters of safety and health at work for telework, in accordance with the provisions set forth in article 330-J.

First. This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second. All provisions that oppose this Decree are repealed.

First. This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation, with the exception of the provisions of Articles Fourth, Fifth and Sixth of this Decree, which shall enter into force on 1 September 2021, and the provisions of Articles Seventh and Eighth of this Decree, which shall enter into force in fiscal year 2022.

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Second. Within the 30 calendar days following the entry into force of this Decree, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall issue the provisions of a general character referred to in article 15, sixth paragraph, of the Federal Labor Law.

Third. As of the date of entry into force of this Decree, the natural or legal persons that provide outsourcing services shall obtain the registration before the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare provided for in article 15 of the Federal Labor Law, no later than 1 September 2021.

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Fourth. For purposes of the provisions of the third paragraph of article 41 of the Federal Labor Law, in the case of companies that operate under an outsourcing regime, the transfer of the goods that are the object of the company or establishment shall not be a requirement until 1 September 2021, provided that the contractor transfers the employees to the beneficiary within said period. In all cases the labor rights, including their seniority, that had been generated by the effect of the employment relationship shall be recognized.

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Fifth. Those employers that, in terms of the second paragraph of article 75 of the Social Security Law, prior to the entry into force of this Decree, had requested from the Mexican Social Security Institute the assignment of one or more employer registrations by class, of those indicated in article 73 of the Social Security Law, in order to carry out the registration of their employees at the national level, shall have until 1 September 2021 to cancel said employer registrations and, if applicable, request from the aforementioned Institute that an employer registration be granted to them in terms of the provisions of the Regulation of the Social Security Law on Affiliation, Classification of Companies, Collection and Auditing.

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Once said period has concluded, those employer registrations by class that have not been cancelled shall be cancelled by the Mexican Social Security Institute.

Sixth. The natural or legal persons that provide specialized services or execute specialized works shall begin to provide the information referred to in sections I and II of article 15 A of the Social Security Law, and shall have until 1 September 2021 to provide it. The information referred to in section III of the cited article shall be presented once the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare makes available to said persons the mechanism for obtaining the referenced document.

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Seventh. For purposes of the Social Security Law, from the entry into force of this amendment and until 1 September 2021, the migration of employees of the companies that operated under the labor outsourcing regime shall be considered as employer substitution, provided that the destination company of the employees recognizes their labor rights, including their seniority and the concluded occupational hazards, before the corresponding legal instances.

Paragraph amended DOF 31-07-2021

In these cases the following rules shall apply, for purposes of the determination of the class, section and premium of the Occupational Hazards Insurance:

1.- The company that absorbs the employees shall self-classify in accordance with the criteria established in articles 71, 73 and 75 of the Social Security Law, and in accordance with articles 18, 20 and the Catalog of Activities provided for in article 196, all of the Regulation of the Social Security Law on Affiliation, Classification of Companies, Collection and Auditing, and shall keep the premium with which the company that had the employees registered with the IMSS had been contributing, provided that said company was correctly classified in accordance with the hazards inherent to the activity of the business in question and the applicable normative provisions; otherwise it shall contribute with the average premium of the class that corresponds to it.

2.- In the case of a company that absorbs the employees of another or other companies, with the same or different classes, and that by virtue thereof must adjust its classification to the new activities it will carry out; the class and section shall be determined attending to the hazards inherent to the activity of the business in question and the premium shall be obtained by applying the following procedure:

a)For each employer registration, both of the company that absorbs and of the other company or companies to be substituted, the assigned premium shall be multiplied by the total of the base contribution wages of the employees included in it. The base contribution wage to be considered shall be that of the month prior to the one in which the substitution is communicated to the Institute.

b)The products obtained in accordance with the preceding subparagraph shall be added and the result shall be divided by the sum of the base contribution wages of the total of the employees included in all the employer registrations.

c)The premium thus obtained shall be applied to the employer registration of the company that absorbs the employees and shall remain in force until the last day of the month of February following the substitution.

d)For purposes of the determination of the premium of the following fiscal year, the company that absorbs the employees shall consider the concluded occupational hazards that occurred to said employees in the corresponding fiscal year.

The foregoing, provided that the companies to be substituted were correctly classified in accordance with the hazards inherent to the activity of the business or businesses in question and the applicable normative provisions; otherwise they shall contribute at the average premium of the class that corresponds to them.

The companies that, as of the date of entry into force of these provisions, have a current Agreement for the Subrogation of Medical Services with Reversion of Contributions, and that in terms of these provisions carry out an employer substitution, shall not be subject to modification of the conditions agreed therein. Once the period of 90 calendar days has elapsed, the rules provided for both in the Social Security Law and in the Regulation of the Social Security Law on Affiliation, Classification of Companies, Collection and Auditing shall apply.

Eighth. Within the period of 60 calendar days counted from the entry into force of this Decree, the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute (INFONAVIT) shall issue the rules establishing the procedures referred to in article 29 Bis, second paragraph, of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute.

The natural or legal persons that provide specialized services or execute specialized works shall begin to provide the information referred to in subparagraph f) of article 29 Bis, once the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare makes available to said persons the mechanism for obtaining the referenced document.

Ninth. The criminal conducts that have been committed prior to the entry into force of this Decree shall be sanctioned in accordance with the legislation in force at the time of the commission of the acts.

Tenth. The agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration involved in the implementation of this Decree shall carry out the necessary actions so that the expenditures generated by reason of its entry into force and implementation are made against the budget approved for each of them in the present fiscal year and subsequent ones, and therefore they shall not require additional resources intended to cover the same and the regularizable budget of these shall not be increased for the present fiscal year or subsequent ones.

Sole.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

First.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall have a period of 180 days following the entry into force of this Decree to prepare and publish an Official Mexican Standard in order to classify the activities referred to in article 176, section II, numeral 8, in order to determine those of lesser risk.

Sole.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Sole.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Sole.- This Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

First.- This Decree shall enter into force on 1 January 2023, or on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation, if this should be in the year 2023.

Second.- The modifications that are the subject of this Decree shall be applicable to the individual or collective employment contracts in force as of the date of its entry into force, whatever their form or name, provided that they are more favorable to the rights of the employees.

Sole.- The present Decree shall enter into force on the first of January of the year following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

First. The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second. The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, within a period of forty-five business days from the entry into force of the present Decree, shall publish the Catalog of the Schedules for the Valuation of Occupational Diseases in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Third. The obligations generated by reason of the entry into force of the present Decree shall be covered with charge to the budget authorized for the corresponding spending executors, for the present fiscal year and subsequent ones.

Fourth. All provisions that contravene that established in the present Decree are repealed.

Sole.- The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Sole.- The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Sole.- The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

First.- The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- The provisions that oppose the present Decree are left without effect.

First.- The present Decree shall enter into force 180 calendar days following the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall issue the corresponding norms on the factors of occupational hazards within a period no greater than 30 calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree.

Third.- Employing persons or companies shall have a period of 180 calendar days counted from the entry into force of the present Decree to adapt their internal regulations to comply with that established in section V of Article 132 of the Federal Labor Law.

First.- The present Decree shall enter into force 180 days after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- The Technical Council of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and, where applicable, the Board of Directors of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute (INFONAVIT), shall publish in the Official Gazette of the Federation, within the 5 days following the entry into force of the present Decree, the general rules that guarantee compliance with the obligations contained in sections V and VI of Article 291-K of this Law, through a pilot test of mandatory participation for the insurance of employees of digital platforms.

Third.- The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) shall have a period of 180 calendar days, counted from the publication of the general rules, so that, considering the results yielded by the pilot test for the insurance of employees of digital platforms, the initiatives that shall define in greater detail the aspects related to compliance with said obligations are prepared, which shall be presented before the Legislative Branch (Poder Legislativo) for its discussion. Where applicable, the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute (INFONAVIT) may propose equivalent regulatory adjustments within its scope of competence.

Fourth.- The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare may compile, prepare, process and disseminate information for the purpose of facilitating the understanding of the rights and obligations arising from employment relationships on digital platforms.

Fifth.- The temporality indicated in section IX of Article 127 of this Law is obtained considering the work time as 45 minutes for every hour and 15 minutes of waiting time for the receipt of tasks, services and, works or jobs; which translates into a factor of 0.75 of activity effectively worked for every hour.

On applying the factor to a working day of 8 hours, the result is 6 daily, which represents 36 weekly or 144 monthly, so that on taking into consideration the temporality established in section VII of the cited Article, it is equated to 288 hours of activity effectively worked.

Sixth.- The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall have 5 days following the entry into force of the present Decree to publish the general provisions that shall define the calculation of the net income referred to in Article 291-F.

First.- The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second.- As of the entry into force of this Decree, all legal provisions that oppose it are repealed.

All the provisions, norms, guidelines, policies, criteria and other regulations issued by any organ or area of the Institute shall remain in force insofar as they do not oppose the present Decree or the norms or resolutions issued by the authorities, or until the competent organs or areas determine their amendment or abrogation.

Third.- The organs of the Institute must be integrated within the thirty calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree; for such purpose:

I.- The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall issue, within the fifteen calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree, the bases for determining the national organizations of employees and employers that shall participate in the designation of the members of the General Assembly, in terms of Articles 7o. and 8o. of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute;

II.- The sectors, based on the representation resulting from the integration of the new General Assembly, must renew in their entirety their respective representation, designating the new members of the organs of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, within the thirty calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree, and

III.- The Federal Executive shall issue the agreement by which it appoints its representatives in the organs of the Institute, within the thirty calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree.

Fourth.- The National Workers' Housing Fund Institute shall renew the head of the Internal Audit, within the thirty calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree, in terms of Article 16, section XVIII, of its Law and the applicable legal provisions.

Fifth.- The head of the General Directorate of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute shall carry out the necessary acts for the incorporation of the subsidiary company, referred to in Article 3o., section V, of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, within the thirty calendar days following the entry into force of the present Decree, and its purpose shall be, among others, the construction of housing, its shareholding composition shall be majority held by the Institute and shall be formed with resources from the budget of administration, operation and oversight expenses authorized for fiscal year 2024. The corporate bylaws shall reflect the principles contained in Article 3o., last paragraph, of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, establish the activities that make up the purpose of the subsidiary company, the governing organs which shall be constituted by at least a Board of Directors, presided over by the head of the General Directorate of the Institute and integrated by the management personnel thereof; as well as by an Audit Committee, which shall have charge of the functions of control, evaluation, accountability and transparency of the subsidiary company; likewise, it shall have an Ethics Committee and a Code of Ethics. The Organic Statute and internal regulations of the subsidiary company shall establish its organizational and operating structure.

Sixth.- The General Assembly and the Board of Directors of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, within a period of one hundred eighty days following the entry into force of the present Decree, shall issue the policies and rules in accordance with which housing shall be granted under social leasing in terms of Article 51 Ter of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute.

The Organs of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute shall issue the other provisions and shall carry out the amendments to its internal legal framework for the purpose of complying with the present Decree, within the three hundred sixty calendar days following the beginning of its validity.

Seventh.- The National Workers' Housing Fund Institute shall continue applying the budgets of income and expenditures, as well as of administration, operation and oversight expenses approved for fiscal year 2024, with effects as of the first business day of fiscal year 2025, considering the inflation estimated for that year, until the integration of its governing organs is renewed. Once the foregoing is fulfilled, the budgets of income and expenditures, as well as of administration, operation and oversight expenses for fiscal year 2025 shall be submitted to the approval of the General Assembly in the next ordinary session following the entry into force of the present Decree.

Eighth.- The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público), assisted by the National Banking and Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores), within a period of ninety business days, counted from the entry into force of the present Decree, shall issue the provisions in the matter of credit that shall be applicable to the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, attending to that provided by the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute and to the social nature of the purposes of that Institute.

The National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, within a period of ninety business days, counted from the issuance of the provisions referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall propose to its General Assembly the policies for the organization of accounting and internal audit referred to in Article 66, section IV, of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute.

For fiscal year 2025, those norms and systems prior to the entry into force of the present Decree shall remain in force.

Ninth.- The Board of Directors of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, within a period of one hundred eighty days following the entry into force of the present Decree, shall establish the program for the extinction of encumbrances and cancellation of registry entries, authorizing the allocation of the economic resources necessary to manage their celebration and delivery of the corresponding instruments to any borrower of the Institute itself, in terms of Article 44 of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute.

The head of the General Directorate of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute shall coordinate with the competent local and municipal authorities to procure the celebration of agreements for the purpose of providing the administrative facilities and tax benefits that the Institute requires for the operation of the program, seeking the expeditious attention of the beneficiary employees and the efficient use of the resources of the National Housing Fund.

Tenth.- The labor rights of the employees who form part of the organs that are extinguished by reason of this Decree shall be respected in terms of the applicable provisions.

Eleventh.- The National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, as of the entry into force of the present Decree, shall maintain the monthly payment of the credits that it may have granted at the amount corresponding to the close of fiscal year 2024 and, as of fiscal year 2025, shall apply an update equivalent to zero percent.

Twelfth.- As of the entry into force of the present Decree, all the resolutions by which collective line three credit projects for the construction of housing that the Board of Directors of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute may have adopted prior to 1 July 2023 are approved shall be cancelled; their proponents may present their projects again, or the remaining stages thereof, for their updating or approval in terms of Article 42, fourth paragraph of the Law of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute.

Where applicable, the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute shall restore in the housing subaccount of the beneficiary employees the amounts that correspond to them for the amortization of the credit granted and shall allow them to process a new credit, provided that they comply with the requirements referred to in the law.

The developers or builders and administering entities of the projects shall have a period of thirty business days, counted from the entry into force of the present Decree, to deliver to the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute, without the need of a judicial resolution, the amounts, interest and conventional penalties that they may have in custody, corresponding to the credits of the beneficiary employees who may have acquired a plot of land destined for construction within any of the projects whose authorizations are cancelled.

The beneficiary employees shall have a period of ninety business days, counted from the entry into force of the present Decree, to transfer to the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute the ownership of the immovable properties that they may have acquired with a line three credit, in the terms of the present transitory provision.

First. The present Decree shall enter into force on the business day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second. The Law of the National Institute of Women (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres), published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on 12 January 2001, is abrogated, as well as all the provisions that oppose that provided in the present Decree.

Third. The references that in other laws and other legal provisions are made to the General Law on Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence shall be understood as referring to the General Law on Women's Access to a Life Free of Violences.

Fourth. The competent authorities of the Federation, the states (federal entities), the municipalities and the territorial demarcations of Mexico City shall carry out the corresponding legislative and regulatory adaptations and, where applicable, enter into the necessary instruments to comply with that provided in the present Decree, within a period no greater than 180 business days.

Fifth. The expenditures generated by reason of the entry into force of the present Decree shall be made with charge to the approved budgets of the corresponding spending executors, for which reason no extensions shall be authorized for the present fiscal year or subsequent ones.

Sixth. The amendments to the National Code of Civil and Family Procedures provided in this Decree shall enter into force in accordance with that provided in the Second transitory article of the Decree published on 7 June 2023 in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Seventh. The references that in other laws and other legal provisions are made to the General Law on Equality between Women and Men shall be understood as referring to the General Law on Substantive Equality between Women and Men.

First. The present Decree shall enter into force on 1 May 2026.

Second. The duration of the working day referred to in Article 59 of the Federal Labor Law shall be reached gradually, as of 1 January of the corresponding year, in accordance with the following:

Year | Working Day

2026 | 48

2027 | 46

2028 | 44

2029 | 42

2030 | 40

Third. The period that runs from 1 May to 31 December 2026 shall allow employees and employers to adjust the work processes to the terms of this Decree.

Fourth. The duration of the extraordinary working day referred to in Article 66 of the Federal Labor Law shall be reached gradually, as of 1 January of the corresponding year, in accordance with the following:

Year | Overtime Hours

2026 | 9

2027 | 9

2028 | 10

2029 | 11

2030 | 12

Fifth. The general provisions referred to in section XXXIV of Article 132 of the Federal Labor Law shall enter into force as of 1 January 2027.

Sixth. The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare shall implement the corresponding mechanisms to compile, process and evaluate data related to the implementation of the reduction of the working day.

Seventh. In no case shall the reduction of the working day imply the decrease of the salaries, wages or benefits of the employees.

First. The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second. The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, within a period of 30 days counted from the entry into force of the present Decree, shall issue the general provisions that determine the procedures related to the certificate referred to in Article 283 Quáter of the Federal Labor Law.

Third. The expenditures generated by reason of the entry into force and implementation of the present Decree shall be made with charge to the authorized budget of the corresponding spending executors, for which reason their regularizable budget of operation expense and of personal services shall not be increased, and no additional resources shall be authorized for the fiscal year in question.

First. The present Decree shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation.

Second. All provisions that oppose the present Decree are repealed.

Third. The Regulation of the Federal Copyright Law shall be amended and added within the sixty days following the entry into force of the present Decree.

Fourth. The administrative proceedings of amicable settlement and arbitration initiated prior to the entry into force of the present Decree, insofar as they do not oppose it, shall continue until their conclusion in accordance with the legal instruments in force existing at the time of their initiation.