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AMLO suggests that labor reform in Mexico be carried out after the presidential elections
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 17:15
Fuente: El Economista

Among the initiatives mentioned is a ruling approved by committees of the Mexican Senate to double the bonus of private sector workers.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested this Tuesday that the changes in labor matters be reviewed after this year's electoral process, since he considered that what is proposed now is carried out with political overtones.

Among the initiatives mentioned is a ruling approved by committees of the Mexican Senate to double the bonus of private sector workers, as well as a bill to extend paternity leave to 20 days, and another to reduce the working day to 40. weekly hours.

"We are going to wait to see what people say... and what happens (without a popular consultation), because demagogic offers abound. I can't talk about that, but you realize it, people realize it perfectly," he indicated. AMLO.

On the other hand, the president expressed that the meeting he had last Monday, March 11, with Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, at the National Palace, was not related to these issues, but that the current senator of the Republic came to thank him because with The governments of the National Action Party (PAN), chaired by Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox, were expelled from the country.

Furthermore, he indicated that, if the latter is promoting these labor changes, he has the right to do so, since the country's senators and deputies are free to present initiatives and authorize them since that is the main function of the legislators of the Congress of the Union.

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