The civil statute of limitations is subject to legal reforms, the study of development of case law constant, a major teaching and academic meetings such as the Colombian Congress of Procedural Law, but almost nothing is said or written about the limitation period for Labor and Social Security, silence is necessary to break with his analysis, especially the start of term, which is its most significant, but never questioned, because under our law the term begins during the term of the employment relationship, contrary to the Convention 95 on the Protection of Wages International Labour Organization, ILO, 1949, which seek the termination of the employment contract, the worker receives the “final settlement of all wages due”, and the trend in Latin America that the term begins from the termination of employment.