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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
Read moreAMLO Sends Anti-Outsourcing Bill to Congress
By NICHOLAS GRAY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a bill to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, Nov. 12, that is intended to cull outsourcing subcontracting schemes that shortchange Mexican workers of their rightful benefits and allows for tax fraud. “Today we are going to present a bill to put order in everything related to subcontracting, generally
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Read moreDon’t Forget the Workers
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMexico Recovers 1.5 Million Jobs Lost to Pandemic
XINHUA Mexico incorporated 1.5 million more citizens into the economically active population (PEA) in July as a result of the gradual reopening of businesses closed due to the covid-19 pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Thursday, Sept. 3. The Inegi National Survey on Occupation and Employment (ENOE) showed that the PEA reached 52.6 million in
Read moreWorkers Wages in Upcoming USMCA
By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. union leaders were doubtful about backing the signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and rightly so. The fear the AFL-CIO had was that Mexican industrialists would continue milking workers with miserable wages as a fact of life, and its members demanded the right to witness negotiations between unions and companies to protect workers’ rights. This
Read moreMexican Labor Laws on Track to Change Radically
By RICARDO CASTILLO Last May 1, which happened to be International Labor Day, Mexico’s Labor Secretary Luisa María Ugalde announced the new labor reform which became law upon being published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. “(This law is) historic because it looks after a pending debt in the nation, because democracy and freedom had not arrived in the
Read moreUSMCA Stability Sorely Needed
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreSupporting Prosperity by Approving the New USMCA
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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