They alert about saturation of Conciliation Centers

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Conciliation Centers and Labor Courts may start to become saturated because they will also handle administrative matters, that is, litigations or claims of rights before the IMSS [Mexican Social Security Institute] and other instances.

“Article 899 of the Federal Labor Law gives (the Centers) competence for hearing matters of an administrative nature, that is, litigations or claims, by people entitled to social security benefits, against the IMSS. But this is an illegal situation, given that the Constitution limits its competence to worker-employer claims or suits” , stated Óscar de la Vega, labor lawyer.

Administrative claims caused the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards to be inefficient, added the specialist.

“The problem is that the number of these administrative claims is very significant, and this was what saturated the Conciliation and Arbitration Boards and made them inefficient.

“It is a situation that could be repeated now in the Conciliation Centers and Labor Courts, if their competence on administrative matters continues”, emphasized De la Vega

The 2019 labor report of the Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board, the last published one, includes a warning that the received claims are, for the most part, against decentralized federal Government bodies (IMSS, Infonavit [National Workers Housing Fund Institute], CFE [Federal Electricity Commission], Pemex), who have internal regulations that prevent them from reaching conciliatory agreements.

In that year, of the 447 thousand matters in process in the Board, 37 percent corresponded to problems with the IMSS, which is higher than matters relating to the private sector, which represented 20 percent.