Conasami starts jobs for minimum wage of 2023

The National Commission for Minimum Wages (Conasami) convened for this Thursday, November 24, the representatives of the sectors – worker, employer and government – ​​to carry out the analysis, review and discussion of the salary increase proposals for 2023.

According to representatives of the employer sector, it is expected that the salary increase will be announced that same day, “although there may be a greater discussion about the economic situation and prolong the negotiations, for which a permanent session will be declared,” they told El Economist.

For his part, José Luis Carazo, spokesman for the labor sector, recalled that the denials that occur within CONASAMI have a very different starting point from that of four years ago, since having separated the minimum wage from fines and surcharges “has been key to achieving a salary recovery. Even with all this, we have the second lowest salary in Latin America”.

Added to the above, he said, is the fact that the salary increase cannot be below inflation, “and he talks about the current inflation rate, not the inflation that is projected for next year 2023, that is important because in this year there has been a loss in purchasing power. It strengthens the path of recovery”.

Carazo Preciado highlighted that the proposal of the labor sector, of 25%, is in unity, and added that “Conasami has been greatly strengthened, today the 22 union organizations that participate are very strong and solid and representative of Mexico; there is a good intention and they always try to take care of what is convenient for each sector, but above all for the country. The salary is not something that can affect, no matter how much they want to make us see the opposite ”.

The employer sector, in the voice of Coparmex, is fighting for a 15 percent wage increase.

Likewise, the spokesperson for the labor sector commented that an important component of the 2023 salary increase will be not to leave professional minimum wages behind; above all because it is unfair that the general minimum wage has been increased by up to 67.3% more than the minimum professional wages.

The increase that was granted in 2022 to the general minimum wage was 22% to 172.87 pesos per day; while a year ago the agreement of the representatives of the Conasami was for an increase of 15 percent.

In the middle of this year, Luis Munguía, head of Conasami, stated that the organization saw a 50% increase as a goal of salary recovery by the end of 2024, taking this year’s level as a reference, which would imply having by 2023 an increase of at least 20 percent.

The increase that was granted in 2022 to the general minimum wage was 22% to 172.87 pesos per day; while a year ago the agreement of the representatives of the Conasami was for an increase of 15 percent.

pilar.martinez@eleconomista.mx