Mexican Federal Labor Law · art. 132 fr. XXXIV
Electronic shift records become mandatory on January 1, 2027.
Published in the Diario Oficial on May 1, 2026. Applies to every employer — farms included. Fines of 250 to 5,000 UMA for missing or unreliable records.
—days until January 1, 2027
Write to us and get your crews ready →What the law requires
An electronic record of every shift
Start and end time for every worker, with identification — every day, every crew.
Tamper-proof and inspectable
Records must be reliable and available whenever the labor authority asks.
Fines with teeth
250 to 5,000 UMA (≈ $29K–$587K MXN) for non-compliance.
And it's not just recording — the workweek shrinks
The same reform phases the workweek down: 46 hours in 2027, reaching 40 by 2030. Recording is the floor — managing crew hours against a cap that drops every year is the real operational problem.
Get ready with FieldAgent
- Clock-in and clock-out from the crew boss's phone — no hardware, no paper.
- Hours per worker, per day, per crew — visible in real time.
- Free for your first 5 users; works in any high-value crop.
STPS hasn't yet published the technical provisions for the registry. The moment they land, we'll tell you exactly what they require — no promises ahead of the law.