Labor Lawyer in San Isidro & Vicente López: Which Court Hears Your Case, and Under Which Law
If you work or were dismissed in San Isidro, Vicente López, Tigre or San Fernando, your claim does not go to the Buenos Aires City courts and does not pass through SECLO. It goes to the Labor Courts of the San Isidro Judicial District, which decide in a single instance under Buenos Aires provincial procedural law 15,057.
- 1. Which court has jurisdiction and which procedural law applies today
- 2. Working in Vicente López is not the same as working in Núñez
- 3. Step by step, with the deadlines of Law 15,057
- 4. The real map of the San Isidro Judicial District
- 5. Mistakes that cost dearly in the provincial labor courts
- 6. Frequently asked questions
Dismissed in the northern suburbs, or denied by your workers' comp insurer?
Send us the labor telegram, the certified letter or the Medical Board ruling. Dr. Guillermo Conti will tell you which court your case belongs to and which deadline is already running:
Which court has jurisdiction and which procedural law applies today
San Isidro and Vicente López are districts of the Province of Buenos Aires: the National Labor Court system has no jurisdiction over them. Your case is decided by the San Isidro Judicial District, which, according to the judicial directory of the provincial Supreme Court, covers four districts: San Isidro, Vicente López, San Fernando and Tigre.
The procedure is governed by Law 15,057 (provincial Official Gazette of 27 November 2018), which by its section 88 repealed Law 11,653. It was due to take effect on the first business day of February 2020 (section 104), but the provincial Supreme Court suspended almost all of it through Resolution 3,199/19.
That ended in July 2024. Through Resolution SC 1840/24, the provincial Supreme Court repealed that suspension and ruled that the provisions of Law 15,057 reproduced in the Annex to the resolution are immediately applicable even with respect to the panel courts of the labor jurisdiction. Sections 7, 22, 71 to 81, 87 and 90 to 102 were left out of the Annex.
What that list of excluded sections means
Sections 71 to 81 are the appeals chapter. Because they were left out, the reform applies without the two-tier system the law itself had designed. The Court explained it in recital 4: wherever the law says "Court", "first-instance judge" or "Court of Appeals", it must be read as "Labor Court"; and wherever it says "of any instance", as "of the single instance".
In practice: your case is heard by a panel of three judges, in an oral and public trial, once. There is no ordinary appeal against the final judgment: only the extraordinary remedies before the provincial Supreme Court (section 82). The remedy for misapplication of law is granted only if the amount in dispute exceeds 500 jus per claimant, unless the judgment contradicts the Court's own doctrine, in which case the amount no longer matters.
The rule that works in your favor: section 83 requires a prior deposit. If the company loses and wants to go to the provincial Supreme Court, it must first deposit principal, interest and costs. It cannot appeal for free just to stretch out payment. That section was amended in December 2025 by provincial Law 15,557, which exempted only the provincial Treasury from the deposit.
What about the 2026 labor reform?
The Labor Modernization Act, Law 27,802 (Official Gazette of 6 March 2026) reformed Law 18,345, the procedural law of the national labor courts: that does not affect the handling of your provincial case (the changes are covered in our note on the procedural reform of Law 18,345). What does reach you are its substantive amendments to the Employment Contract Act, which applies nationwide: the new section 245, the 45-business-day deadline in section 80 and section 20 on free access and costs.
One section does cross the jurisdictional line: section 89 requires every judge deciding labor cases, regardless of jurisdiction, to align their decisions with the precedents of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, and treats an unfounded departure as grounds for misconduct.
Working in Vicente López is not the same as working in Núñez
General Paz Avenue separates two entirely different procedural circuits:
- There is no SECLO here. Section 1 of Law 24,635 sends to SECLO the claims within the jurisdiction of the national labor courts. Yours is not one of them. You sue directly before the Labor Court. The City circuit is explained in Mandatory SECLO Conciliation.
- There is an administrative stage, but it is voluntary. Provincial Law 10,149 allows conciliation before the Regional Delegation of the provincial Labor Ministry. Nobody forces you to go. And you should watch the clock: section 257 of the Employment Contract Act says a claim before the labor administrative authority interrupts the statute of limitations while it is pending, but never for more than six months.
- Territorial jurisdiction cannot be waived. Section 3 of Law 15,057 lets you choose between the defendant's domicile, the place where the work was performed and the place where the contract was signed. Your own address is not on that list. It only appears the other way around: if the employer sues you, it must do so where you live.
- Living in Olivos does not pull the case into the Province. If you worked in Núñez or Saavedra and the company is in the City, your case belongs to the National Labor Courts and you do have SECLO: see how it works on the other side. The reverse is equally true: you live in Belgrano, you worked in a warehouse in Boulogne, and you sue in San Isidro.
- Service of process has fixed days. Under section 16, rulings are deemed served by operation of law on Tuesdays and Fridays, or the next business day. Electronic service takes effect on the Tuesday or Friday following the day the notice became available in the system.
- Power of attorney by simple letter, not by deed. Section 28 allows a worker to be represented through a simple letter of authority, with the signature certified by a notary, an authorized judicial officer or the clerk of the Court itself.
- You choose where the medical tests are done. Section 45 leaves the complementary tests for medical and psychological expert reports to the worker's choice: privately, through their health plan or at a public hospital. And it declares it inadmissible for the workers' comp insurer or the Medical Boards to perform them. Court experts, in turn, are drawn by lot from the provincial roster (section 44).
Step by step, with the deadlines of Law 15,057
- Formal demand by free labor telegram. Law 23,789 lets you send telegrams and certified letters at no cost. Section 57 of the Employment Contract Act turns the employer's silence into a presumption against it, if it lasts for a reasonable period that can never be shorter than two business days. How to send it, in free labor telegram.
- For an accident or occupational illness, the Medical Board comes first. The Province adhered to Law 27,348 through provincial Law 14,997 (Official Gazette of 8 January 2018), so the prior administrative stage is mandatory and requires counsel. Full circuit in Medical Board claims.
- After the ruling you have three routes. The administrative appeal to the Central Medical Board; the judicial appeal; or the Province's own route: the ordinary labor review action under section 2(j) of Law 15,057, filed before the competent Labor Court within 90 court business days of service of the ruling, on penalty of forfeiture. That action absorbs any appeal the insurer files before the Central Medical Board, and the labor judgment is binding on both parties.
- Complaint before the Labor Court. Section 31 requires a precise designation of each item claimed, the facts, a calculation of every item and the evidence. The defendant has ten days to answer, extended by one day for every 200 km (section 33). If it does not answer, it is declared in default and the lawful facts of the complaint are presumed true, absent evidence to the contrary.
- Preliminary hearing. It is set within twenty days of the answers being filed (section 38). There the court invites settlement, cures procedural defects, fixes the disputed facts, opens a sixty-day evidence period, screens the expert questions with twenty days for the experts to report, and sets the trial hearing within ninety days. Attendance is in person and with counsel: an unjustified absence carries a fine of three to ten jus (section 39).
- Trial hearing. The parties and witnesses testify and the experts give explanations before the three judges. The hearing is video-recorded (section 56). If the employer does not produce the books required by section 52 of the Employment Contract Act, your sworn statement shifts the burden of proof (section 48).
- Judgment and collection. Section 57 requires the court to decide each fact stating the evidence it weighed, under the rules of sound judicial reasoning. If the company wants to seek review, it must deposit first (section 83).
The real map of the San Isidro Judicial District
A fact that surprises many people in the area: there is no Labor Court in Vicente López, Tigre or San Fernando. According to the judicial directory of the provincial Supreme Court, the district's six Labor Courts all sit in the city of San Isidro — Ituzaingó 340, Terrero 54 and Maipú 19 — and all six have the same jurisdiction over the four districts.
- Whether you work in an office in Olivos, a shop in Martínez, a shipyard in San Fernando or a warehouse in Don Torcuato, the file is docketed in San Isidro.
- For accidents, Medical Board No. 39 sits in San Isidro, with a branch in Pilar, according to the list approved by SRT Resolution 23/2018.
- The voluntary conciliation under Law 10,149 is handled by the Regional Delegation of the provincial Labor Ministry covering San Isidro and Vicente López: a different body, unrelated to the City's SECLO.
The provincial Supreme Court sets doctrine using cases from this area. In "Goncalvez Do Braz, Stella Maris v. Cooperadora Única de Centros de Salud de la Municipalidad de Tigre re: Dismissal" (SCBA, L. 111,454, judgment of 5 June 2013) it held that the shift in the burden of proof for failure to produce the books does not replace your obligation to prove that the employment relationship existed. It is the costliest mistake in unregistered employment claims: the sworn statement helps with the start date and the wage, not with the existence of the relationship.
Mistakes that cost dearly in the provincial labor courts
- Filing with SECLO "just in case". It is not your forum: you lose weeks and it interrupts nothing useful in the Province.
- Suing in the City because the insurer is domiciled there. Jurisdiction under section 3 cannot be waived and does not look at the insurer.
- Letting the 90 court business days lapse on the review action against the Medical Board ruling. The section is explicit: on penalty of forfeiture.
- Having the complementary tests done by the insurer. Section 45 declares it inadmissible and leaves you without evidence. If you have already been discharged, see premature medical discharge; if your claim was denied, workers' comp claim rejection.
- Signing at the labor delegation believing it can be revisited. Section 15 of the Employment Contract Act, as worded by Law 27,802, is categorical: administrative or judicial approval gives the settlement the authority of res judicata.
- Inflating the claim. The new section 20 of the Employment Contract Act defines excessive claiming objectively where the amounts sought are overstated, and orders costs to be borne jointly and severally by the party and the attorney involved.
- Waiting. The limitation period under section 256 of the Employment Contract Act is still two years and is a matter of public policy: it cannot be modified by agreement. How your severance is calculated, in seniority severance pay and in dismissal without cause.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the trial held if I work in Vicente López?
Before the Labor Courts of the San Isidro Judicial District, which sit in the city of San Isidro. Vicente López has no labor court of its own: it shares a judicial district with San Isidro, San Fernando and Tigre.
Do I have to go to SECLO if I was dismissed in San Isidro?
No. Section 1 of Law 24,635 subjects to SECLO the claims falling within the jurisdiction of the national labor courts, and yours falls within the provincial courts. In the Province you sue directly before the Labor Court.
Which procedural law applies today: 11,653 or 15,057?
Law 15,057, which repealed Law 11,653 through its section 88. It was suspended by SCBA Resolution 3,199/19 until Resolution SC 1840/24 ordered the immediate application of the provisions reproduced in its Annex, even with respect to the panel courts. Sections 7, 22, 71 to 81, 87 and 90 to 102 still do not apply.
Can I appeal the judgment of the San Isidro Labor Court?
There is no ordinary appeal: the appeals chapter of Law 15,057 (sections 71 to 81) was left out of the Annex to Resolution SC 1840/24. Only the extraordinary remedies before the provincial Supreme Court are available against the final judgment (section 82), and the remedy for misapplication of law requires the amount in dispute to exceed 500 jus per claimant, unless the judgment contradicts the Court's doctrine.
Are the single-judge Labor Courts and Labor Courts of Appeals operating yet?
No. Law 15,057 provided for them, but bringing them into operation was made subject to further studies and institutional agreements. That is why the Supreme Court clarified that wherever the law says "Court", "first-instance judge" or "Court of Appeals" it must be read as "Labor Court", and wherever it says "of any instance", as "of the single instance".
I live in Vicente López but worked in the City. Where do I sue?
Your address is not a connecting factor. If the place of work, the employer's domicile or the place where the contract was signed is in the City, your case belongs to the National Labor Courts and you must exhaust SECLO before suing.
I had an accident working in Martínez. Which Medical Board do I go to?
To Medical Board No. 39, which sits in San Isidro with a branch in Pilar, according to the list approved by SRT Resolution 23/2018. The stage is mandatory because the Province adhered to Law 27,348 through provincial Law 14,997.
After the Medical Board ruling, how long do I have?
The ordinary labor review action under section 2(j) of Law 15,057 must be filed before the competent Labor Court within 90 court business days from service of the ruling of the Jurisdictional Medical Board, on penalty of forfeiture.
Can I have the medical tests done through my health plan?
Yes. Section 45 of Law 15,057 leaves the complementary tests for medical and psychological expert reports to the worker's choice: privately, through their health plan or at a public hospital. And it declares it inadmissible for the workers' compensation insurers or the Medical Boards to perform them.
Is it worth filing at the Labor Ministry delegation before suing?
It is voluntary and sometimes useful, but watch the clock: section 257 of the Employment Contract Act says a claim before the labor administrative authority interrupts the statute of limitations while it is pending, and in no case for more than six months. If a settlement is approved, it becomes res judicata.
Does it cost money to litigate in San Isidro?
Section 25 of Law 15,057 exempts the proceedings from every court fee, stamp duty and levy, and section 27 declares the worker exempt from court service fees, with no real or personal security required. Be careful about inflating the claim: the new section 20 of the Employment Contract Act makes the party and their attorney jointly and severally liable for costs where there is excessive claiming.
Does the 2026 labor reform change my case in the Province?
Procedurally, no: Law 27,802 reformed Law 18,345, which governs the national labor courts. Substantively, yes, because it amended the Employment Contract Act, which applies nationwide. And its section 89 requires every labor judge to align their decisions with the precedents of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.