OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago, no government official in Mexico, be it fe3deral, state or municipal, nor member of any autonomous bodies or the country’s federal judicial powers, is allowed to have a salary higher than — or even equal to — that of the president. However, since a
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By KELIN DILLON Following an eight-hour debate, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies approved Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) outsourcing bill without a single change, sending it to the Senate for further analysis and ratification. Much of the eight-hour debate was taken up rejecting the 38 reservations and proposals for modification from various parliamentary groups, after which the vote was
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican Senate draft of the new labor subcontracting or outsourcing bill project bill has undergone some major changes so far. It’s also been the subject of deep divisions among senators, some wanting to go the radical route and others obeying lobbying efforts from both foreign and national companies that have so far gotten their way in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia wants to modify outsourcing-related clauses within the Federal Labor Law, which could prevent the pact from being passed in the United States…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Prior to Easter vacation, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved the new Labor Law. Since it is a complex document, I will try simplify it to make it more comprehensible. It must be stated beforehand that this reform to Article 3 of the Mexican Constitution was demanded by Canadian and U.S. union centrals in order to bring
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Both houses of the Mexican Congress are about to embark on a rewriting of the Ley Federal del Trabajo (Federal Labor Law, or LFT). The LFT debate is expected to be multifaceted and particularly interesting, mainly because the administration of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will undoubtedly favor the exploited and beleaguered Mexican working class.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Baseball aficionado President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was pitched two unrelated labor strikes in a row on the week of Jan. 21. One was in the state of Michoacán concerning teachers, and the other was in the border city of Matamoros launched by maquiladora (in-bond assembly) industry workers. Both strikes were swerving curves that smoked right past batting
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