Coparmex estimates the increase in the minimum wage at 15%

The president of the Employers Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex), Joseph Medina Morastated that the proposal on the increase in the minimum wage that they will present for the next review is 15%, since they consider that it is possible that employers can grant that increase without impacting the inflation.

Interviewed after his participation in the Forum of the XX Anniversary of the Mexican Association of Human Capital Companies (AMECH), Medina Mora He stated that the increase must be above 8% of inflation, granting 6 percentage points, but this will depend on the discussion that takes place in the National Minimum Wage Commission (Consume me).

“The decent salary, a concept that we have promoted, because first the salary had to be deindexed in order to increase it and the objective was to reach the well-being line, that objective has already been met. Now it is time to reach the line of family welfare, that is to say that they have two minimum wages, that has already been achieved in the Northern Border Zone and the Minimum Professional Wages, it is necessary in the general minimum wages, it is an objective that we will continue promoting “, said.

Likewise, the employer leader made a call not to wait for the minimum wage to rise, but to grant better wages; that is, “taking the initiative from the company and not waiting for a minimum wage to reach those levels. There are 13% of Mexicans who earn the minimum wage and 2% are in the formal sector, they have commissions and tips and 11% are in the informal sector”, he recalled.

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