New labor courts start this week in 13 states of the country

As of November 3, the official offices of parts of the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards will be closed, so they will stop receiving new individual and collective procedures from the first minute, since the Federal Courts and the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registry (CFCRL) in the states of Veracruz, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Baja California, Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Querétaro, Colima, Quintana Roo and Baja California Sur.

In that sense, “as of the first minute of November 3, the official office of parts of the area of ​​registration of collective contracts and internal labor regulations is closed at the national level, so that collective contracts, internal labor regulations will not be received , contract management agreements, nor writings or promotions related to them ”, as reported by the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration.

“This is one of the most relevant changes in the implementation of the reform in matters of freedom of association, it implies a new process for the procedures to be carried out and where workers take greater participation, seeking transparency and respect for workers’ rights” said Germán de la Garza de Vecchi, Lead Partner of Labor Services at Deloitte Mexico.

It is estimated that 75% of cases can be concluded through conciliation, in accordance with the experience obtained and the results of the Labor Reform in its first stage of implementation.

In this sense, companies that are federally competent must carry out their processes with the new procedure and in front of federal courts, exhausting the mandatory conciliation.

It should be noted that in the 13 entities in which the second stage takes office, the conciliatory functions will start on November 3, which are added to the eight entities of the first; while the registry work is national, so the STPS will support with spaces in the remaining 11 states for the CFCRL to put up service modules to comply with this commitment.

This is due to the fact that there will also be a new national public registry on all union activity in the country.

The states in which the first stage of the reform was implemented, in November of last year, are Durango, State of Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco and Hidalgo, the latter only at the federal level.

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