Sheinbaum orders the gradual discount of the working day at 40 hours within the nation | Economy | EUROtoday

The reform to scale back the working day from 48 to 40 hours per week returns to flight in Mexico. Within the framework of the commemoration of May 1, President Claudia Sheinbaum has introduced that from this week the work tables will start for the implementation of this measure. “It cannot be done (the reduction) from one day to another, but the important thing is to see how we are going to do it and that it is an agreement that allows us to have better conditions for the obstacles,” the president stated within the National Palace, in entrance of the primary union leaders of the nation. The goal of the federal authorities is to start its implementation regularly till it reaches 40 hours in 2030.

The Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños, added that the controversy will contain entrepreneurs, unions and employees. “This historic change will be made through a process of social dialogue, in which all the people involved will be taken into account. It must be clear, reducing the hours of work does not reduce productivity or reduces the general value, what it does is dignify the existence of the workers returning hours of their lives and valuing the work they do week by week,” stated Bolaños this Thursday within the National Palace. The discount of the working day, which has raised the criticism of some voices within the enterprise sector, was one in every of Sheinbaum’s marketing campaign guarantees.

The initiative to scale back the work week in Mexico will not be new, nonetheless, it has not been capable of advance by the legislative channels. In October 2022, the initiative was offered by the deputy of Morena, Susana Prieto Terrazas. After weeks of foyer and debate for and in opposition to, the proposal was frozen. Now, within the present administration, the Legislative Power additionally didn’t convey its dialogue within the bizarre intervals of the Chamber of Deputies.

According to the newest information of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Mexico is without doubt one of the international locations the place individuals spend extra time from their lives to their jobs: 2,226 hours labored a yr, the next determine with respect to Costa Rica, Chile, Israel or Russia. The final time a modification was made to the working day in Mexico was in 1917, greater than a century in the past. In the subsequent few days the query will likely be dissipated if this ready measure should be added yet another yr.