Reform To Mexico's Labor Justice System

Mexico's Official Gazette of the Federation (known as the Diario Oficial de la Federación or DOF) recently announced a number of changes with a decree that reformed and added several dispositions of Articles 107 and 123 of the Mexican Federal Constitution. As part of a reform of the Labor Justice System, employees bringing claims against their employers will need to submit to compulsory prejudicial conciliation before the commencement of a labor trial.

The reform also creates local conciliation centers and a new federal decentralized agency, un Organismo Descentralizado, which will conduct the referred prejudicial conciliation. Additionally, the decentralized agency will administer union and collective bargaining matters. Local and federal Conciliation and Arbitration Labor Boards will disappear and instead local and federal labor courts will be created to handle labor justice.