Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Mexico as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Mexico: US files second labour complaint in Mexico under trade pact
Under the US free trade agreement, established unions have the right to enjoy recognition and free collective bargaining …
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Mexico: Payroll tax returns (Sinaloa)
The State of Sinaloa has just published a new online form for employers to complete when they submit data to the tax authority in respect to payroll transactions …
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Mexico: Registry of individuals or legal entities that render specialised services or execute specialised works
The much awaited guidance under the legislation banning subcontracting and heavily limiting the facility for employers to “contract out” or “outsource” personnel has finally been published in the Official Gazette (DOF) …
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Mexico: Goodbye insourcing
The government has been trying for some years to control the widespread company practice of insourcing or outsourcing core employees in order to avoid tax, social security contributions and company profit sharing obligations …
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Mexico: Employer unions
As a consequence of the United States, Mexico, and Canada Agreement (USMCA), labour laws in Mexico have been amended to render unlawful the conclusion of collective agreements with employer controlled or dominated trade unions …
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Mexico: Minimum wage increased from 2021
The general minimum daily wage has been increased by 15% from 123 …
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Mexico: Mexican employers will need to adapt to new teleworking measures
The Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has just signed into Federal law a requirement for employers to enter into a special contract appendage with their remote workers …
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Mexico: Regulations governing remote work approved
The Parliamentary Labour Commission has approved regulations governing remote work …
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Mexico: Talent development scheme
Heineken Mexico is sponsoring a talent development scheme involving 300 young people being given the opportunity to attend two of the country’s most prestigious educational institutions – Tecnológico de Monterrey or Tec Milenio …
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Mexico: Government to raise workers’ daily minimum wage by 15% in 2021
With one of the lowest minimum wage rates in the World the poorest paid have been particularly vulnerable during the pandemic …
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Mexico: Employment in Guadalajara
Around 40% of all new jobs registered in the country in October and November were within Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco …
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Mexico: Supreme court again extends marijuana legalization deadline
Already effectively legal for medical use, the wider legalisation of cannabis is clearly on the horizon, despite being delayed by the Supreme Court until 15th December …
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Mexico: States in Mexico move to ban junk food sales to minors
The growing pandemic death toll amongst young people linked to obesity and diabetes is forcing individual States to focus on the diet of young people …
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Mexico: Agency reports a 6.8% reduction in working poverty in June
The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) has estimated that in June 2020, the proportion of the working population in Mexico who are paid below the minimum level of a food basket sufficient to feed them and their families was 48 …
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Mexico: Technical guidelines for health safety in the workplace
Last month the government published its “Technical guidelines for health safety in the workplace” …
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