Mexico Steps Up Workplace Inspections as 3 Labor Rules Raise Employer Compliance Risks
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Updated · The National Law Review · Jul 23
Mexico Steps Up Workplace Inspections as 3 Labor Rules Raise Employer Compliance Risks
1 articles · Updated · The National Law Review · Jul 23
Summary
Mexico has intensified workplace inspections in 2026, putting employers under greater pressure to comply with labor rules on anti-discrimination, violence against women, psychosocial risks and workplace seating.
A Jan. 15, 2026 decree tightened obligations by requiring employers to prevent discrimination and violence, guarantee substantive gender equality, provide periodic training and keep evidence that those sessions occurred.
Article 132 of the Federal Labor Law also requires a protocol covering gender-based discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, forced labor and child labor; missing protocols can trigger sanctions during inspections.
NOM-035-STPS-2018 adds compliance work through annual psychosocial-risk policy updates, workweek-distribution changes and evaluations every 2 years.
The Chair Law has been mandatory since June 2025, requiring enough chairs with backrests, periodic rest breaks and updated internal rules, broadening the inspection checklist beyond the headline workweek cut.