Prejudicial Conciliation

General Information

Institution:

Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) of Mexico

Country:

Mexico

Contact person:

General Directorate of Institutional Relations

Position:

Labor Policy and Institutional Relations Unit

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

(52 55) 2000-5300 Ext. 63710 y 63270

Website of the program:

https://www.gob.mx/cfcrl

Which of the following topic(s) applies to the program?:

Topics:

LABOR RELATIONS

Individual and collective conflict resolution

Program Description

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Description:

The Federal Center for Labor Conciliation and Registration (CFCRL, in its Spanish acronym) is a decentralized public agency of the Federal Government with technical, operational, decision making and management autonomy, which has, as one of its main functions, the processing of federal pre-judicial conciliation procedures in individual labor matters.

Actions:

Free legal advice on labor rights, statute of limitations, as well as on conciliation and jurisdictional procedures to resolve labor disputes.
Mandatory pre-judicial conciliation (in person and remotely), which promotes the resolution of labor disputes between employers and employees. It should be noted that the procedure has a maximum duration of 45 calendar days and, if the parties reach an agreement, it has the qualification as a res judicata collective bargain agreement.
Ratification of collective bargaining agreements. In this case, employers and workers who have privately reached an agreement may appear before the CFCRL offices in order to this authority to analyze whether the agreement complies with the provisions of the Federal Labor Law and, as the case may be, sanction the document, granting it the status of res judicata.

Objectives:

To resolve in a peaceful, swift and simple way individual labor disputes arising between workers and employers, in order to maintain a balance in labor relations and preserve social peace.

Year of Start:

2019

Estimated duration:

Undefined

Geographic coverage:

National

Target population:

Workers

Employers

Evaluation and Documentation

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Describe the program's most important achievements and lessons learned:

Within the framework of the reform to the Federal Labor Law, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on May 1, 2019, the Federal Center for Labor Conciliation and Registration was created as an institution in charge of implementing the pre-judicial conciliation procedure.

The CFCRL has 45 state, support and itinerant, offices throughout Mexico, where 145 conciliators provide individual conciliation services.

The Federal Labor Center has achieved that 70% of labor disputes are resolved through conciliation without the need to go to trial, formalizing the signing of 171,200 agreements that cover the amount of $42,033,252,367.57.

Describe the challenges of the program:

Increase the rate of labor disputes resolved through conciliation.
Strengthen the IT system in order to make the procedure more efficient.
Strengthen pre-judicial conciliation by remote means.
Professionalization of conciliatory personnel.