Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Mexico as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
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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Mexico: Labour courts case backlog
Because labour courts were suspended in February 2020, there is going to be a huge backlog when they reopen this Summer …
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Mexico: Union pressures during lockdown
Companies in the entertainment and gaming industry have generally experienced a complete lockdown of their operations since March 2020 …
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Mexico: Force Majeure of COVID-19 under Mexican Law?
Making a salary reduction to respond to force majeure can present problems in Mexico …
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Mexico: Payroll taxes submission periods extended
The Federal state of Michoacán has announced extended periods to submit payroll taxes, with subsidies removing payroll tax altogether for restaurants, hotels, spas, and travel agencies over a 3-month period …
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Mexico: Working from home
Employers lawfully may not unilaterally demand that employees work from home, or some other location remote from their normal workplace …
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Mexico: Changes to application fees
The National Immigration Institute (Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM)) has published a table of new immigration fees …
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Mexico: Companies must meet annual deadline to update their corporate registration certificate
Companies employing foreign workers are reminded that their corporate registration certificate (CRC) must be updated with the National Immigration Institute (INM) no later than March 31st 2020 …
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Mexico: Minimum wage increased by 20%
The minimum national daily wage has now increased by 20% to 123 …
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Mexico: Employment growth
According to statistical data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, employment growth in Mexico’s formal sector has increased for the first time since September 2018, reaching an annualised rate of 3 …
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Mexico: 100 firms agree to pay employees at least 6500 pesos a month
100 companies, including Zurich Insurance, Nestle Mexico and J Walter Thompson, have announced they will raise the minimum monthly salary for their employees to MXN6,500 (US$340) from the 1st of December 2019 …
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