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Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social (Guatemala)

Applies the rule

Guatemala's labour ministry, which administers work permits for foreigners through its own department and republishes the Constitution and the Labour Code in its legislation library.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

mintrabajo.gob.gt

Cannot be cited for

It must not be cited as the publisher of anything it merely hosts. The Constitution and the Labour Code here are a ministry's library copies, and our reading of the Constitution shows why that matters: twenty-seven article headings did not survive extraction, one article is absent and another breaks off mid-sentence, so no negative claim about the Constitution may rest on this source. Nor may it be cited for migration status, which belongs to the migration institute.

Re-check every

120 days

Publication rhythm

The work-permit regulation replaced a 2003 accord in September 2025, so roughly once a generation; the library PDFs were re-uploaded in 2026.

Re-check triggers

a new Acuerdo Gubernativo on foreign work permits · a reform of Labour Code art. 13 · any executive agreement modifying the workforce proportions for a sector or for Central Americans

Facts resting on this publisher · 12