National Constitution of Paraguay

Article 137, paragraph 1

The highest law of the Republic is the Constitution. This, the treaties, international conventions and agreements adopted and ratified, the laws adopted by Congress and other legal provisions of lower hierarchy, make up domestic positive law in the order of precedence given.

Article 141

Duly negotiated international treaties, adopted by law by Congress and whose instruments of ratification were exchanged or deposited, form part of the domestic legal regulations with the hierarchy determined by Article 137.

Labour Code

Article 6

Lacking legal or contractual labour norms precisely applicable to the case under discussion, the case shall be resolved in accordance with equity, the general principles of the labour law, provisions of International Labour Organization Conventions applicable to Paraguay, principles of common law not contrary to those of the labour law, doctrine and case law and custom or local use.