Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation
https://techfixated.com/mexico-cuts-workweek-bans-after-hours-contact-and-guarantees-no-worker-will-take-a-pay-cut-in-the-most-sweeping-labor-reform-in-a-generation/
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SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 75d
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 75d
As a Mexican person, I wish people actually knew how she actually governs. Nice headlines, but holy fuck is it disconnected from reality
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 75d
Explain please.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 74d
Centralizing power. Dismanteling independent regulatory agencies of transparency (INEAI) and COFECE, the federal economic competition commission, basically the antitrust authority. Overhauling the court system to make judges be elected. Using the military as police. Reforming the national electoral institute to now be partisan.
Lack of medicine & supply stocks at hospitals (official figures are always 80%, but many reported cases of lack of vaccines, OTC meds, diabetes meds, chemotherapy.)
Her close ties to narcos, etc. Violence is at an all time high. Corruption is even worse.
The national debt has never in the history of the country been higher. Neither has the deficit.
One thing that party is phenomenal at is bot farms tho.
EDIT: as for this new work reform, 40 hours doesn't mean 2 days of a week. We will still have to work 6 days a week. Less hours yes ofc ... but for many people in CDMX will still have to ride hours on the metro every Saturday.
As I said, reality is very different from the pretty headlines. And basically she totally caved to the business owners
Yliaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
Didn't she make universal healthcare?
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 74d
We have had universal healthcare care since the 1940s. 2 separate systems for private workers and another for private workers. What she did was merge them and force us to use an app to access the health system
Yliaster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
interesting, okay
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
As is the case with most pro-labor politicians, the people who are most vocally against them are not the people who will be most helped by them. Those people don’t have time to find niche social media sites to go post on, they’re too busy working.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d
Lmao. Get on Facebook. Maybe not a niche site, but they definitely have the time to post. Get real bro
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 74d
Jesus, they'll have a >40 hour work week for 4 more years?
Why so conservative?
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 74d
NAFTA. They don't want to be invaded. When the dems decided to completely and utterly finish destroying small town America and created one of the largest decreases in social mobility in US history by giving companies every incentive to move their manufacturing to other countries, those companies started depending on that cheap labor.
We invented Banana Republics for basically the same thing that Mexico is now pushing for, and Mexican politicians at least are educated enough to know that history.
They don't want to be Venezuela'd or Panama'd Or Ecuador'd. They don't want the US to give more guns to the cartels to use against the Mexican government like Obama did the last time Mexico got a bit
uppity'lets improve things slightly'y.They figure if they change things slowly enough over time either US companies will adapt, the US will have collapsed, or Americans might wake up and at least put in power an isolationist government.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 74d
What's, umm, what's the percent of informal workers in Mexico that are day laborers paid under the table without any formal contract or protection?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · -42 pts · 75d
Just now catching up to what we have in the states and not until 2030. So nothing amazing here.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 75d
I might just be a dumb American but I'm pretty sure most states have none of this.
galaxy_nova@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d
Which states are you living in m8?Edit replied to the wrong comment whoops
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 75d
I mean…
I’d kill for that. Even if it’s legal in the states it definitely still feels like I gotta take calls all hours of the fucking day and night
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
Amen to that. Where I work it seems to have regressed recently, too.
It hit a point of sanity there, then there was a disruption in management... sigh.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 75d
Never had a job that required me to answer after hours and wouldn't accept one that did.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 75d
I mean… I didn’t accept one to begin with, but I’ve been moved into one that that does.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
Same happened at mine.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 74d
Have you tried...turning off your phone?
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
Didn’t work that way. Cause if I don’t answer I get people who whine tear I never answer my phone, but also simultaneously don’t text me or leave voicemails
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 74d
Respond saying you answer the phone during work hours
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
In some places that is called a "CLM", or career-limiting move.
Meaning, a great way to give the powers that be an excuse to fire you.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 74d
If they fire you for that, you have a law suit.
They can't fire you for that
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
Good luck proving it, LOL.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 6 pts · 74d
And for some reason that makes you the sample for the entire population? Or what’s your point?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 22 pts · 75d
The US has a 40 hour workweek already*, but we don't have anything about after-hours contact or pay cuts.
*Unless you're salary exempt, an 'independent contractor' gig worker, in certain agricultural jobs, or other exceptions.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 75d
Which states have any of these laws, and of those how many have all of them? If the answer isn't one, then it's none. Do better
qarbone@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 75d
This has got to be bait.
galaxy_nova@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 75d
Which states are you living in m8?