By MARK LORENZANA On Wednesday, June 8, Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) announced that it is extending until Jan. 1, 2023, the deadline for employees to submit their Certificate of Fiscal Situation or tax data to their employers, from the original July 1, 2022, deadline. In April of this year, the SAT imposed a new requirement for the issuance of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A confrontation between workers at a Cruz Azul cement plant in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo on Wednesday, April 27, left at least eight people dead and 11 others injured, according to preliminary reports from local officials. The brawl broke out in the early morning Wednesday at the Tula, Hidalgo, plant, about 100
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The facts suggest that, using the covid-19 pandemic as a pretext, a perverse political pact is rapidly returning Mexico to the levels of bureaucratic inefficiency that prevailed in the country during the 1970s. That unwritten pact is between the federal government and some of the bureaucratic labor unions that exist today inside and outside of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Feb. 10, that his administration will finally address the long-stagnated issue of financial compensation for workers who were fired from the state-run Luz y Fuerza (LyFC) electricity company company in 2009, which was replaced by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). Under a new program, AMLO
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By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax
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Corporations Versus Labor
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It seemed like two years ago, back in December 2018, that then-new Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had partially paved the rocky road that would lead to minimum wage hikes for 2019. At that time, AMLO managed to achieve a tripartite agreement among business organizations, unions and the new Labor Secretariat consensus regarding the hike.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, Dec. 19, that he will propose a 15-percent increase in the nation’s minimum wage for 2021. “For the last two years, we have been working to raise the minimum wage in Mexico,” AMLO said in his daily morning press conference. “In our first year
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