Dear Clients and Friends:
Please be advised that pursuant to the sanitary emergency derived from the COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS) outbreak the Health Safety Committee of the State of Tamaulipas has issued recommendations; therefore, the State Government has implemented the following measures of suspension of activities regarding State Courts and Labor Boards:
The State Judiciary Council of the State of Tamaulipas
·The Plenary Committee of the State Supreme Court of Justice, determined as a preventive measure to suspend activities of all jurisdictional Judiciary State Authorities and its agencies as of 15:00 hours of March 18, 2020 through April 19, 2020, resuming activities on April 20, 2020.
·The abovementioned suspension of activities, without prejudice to the provisions established within the scope of its competence by the State Judicial Council, for which, among other matters, the appointment of on-call personnel to handle constitutional deadlines in criminal matters and in the Comprehensive Criminal Justice System for Teenagers, and urgent matters in the courts in other cases.
·In jurisdictional matters: as of the suspension of activates and in consequence of the procedural terms, the following are exceptions: In the Accusatory and Oral Criminal System, as well as in the Comprehensive Criminal Justice System for Teenagers, the hearings that are already scheduled within the term of suspension of activities; however, the Official State Judiciary Clerks’ Office will not receive any promotions, unless they are emergency exceptions.
·The terms established for the administrative responsibility procedure will not legally run (lapse), with reference to the actions of the investigating, substantiating and resolving authority.
·The jurisdictional and administrative activities will be carried out with the minimum essential personnel.
The State and Local Labor Boards for the State of Tamaulipas
·Determined as a preventive measure to suspend activities and services of all State and Local Labor Boards to interested parties, attorneys and public in general as of March 19, 2020 through April 19, 2020, resuming activities on April 20, 2020.
·During the timeframe established between March 19, 2020 through April 19, 2020 no terms established will legally lapse in ordinary and special labor procedures of an individual or collective nature.
·The Labor Clerks’ Office will remain closed.
·All the periods of pre-strike and suspensions of labor notices previously announced will be considered as extended for a period equal to the previously stated suspension of activities.
·During the suspension of activities and terms, the pre-strike period will not run (lapse), therefore, no suspension of activities may be carried out, even if the date of conclusion of the announced term falls within the period of said suspension.
·The activities will be resumed once the contingency is overcome or the announced term reaches its conclusion, or it is determined what is required by the Health authorities and this authority informs it.
·Likewise, and regardless of the fact that for the purposes of the strike procedure the term for the suspension of activities does not run, the Local Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, through the Strike Department, may process exceptional situations related to the strike procedure.
Sincerely,
Ernesto Velarde Danache, Inc.
