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Luisa María Alcalde Luján, Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS), affirms that there are important challenges in labor policy this year, where it is not only about maintaining the most important program of the administration with the largest number of trained young people , but to advance in the regulation of new forms of work, such as the case of digital platforms, as well as the regularization of agricultural export workers and promote union democracy in organizations such as that of oil workers with the participation of more 90,000 workers.
In an interview with El Economista, the head of the work explained that this January for the federal government it will be a challenge to follow up on the most important union election, “we will have a historic election, on January 31 the union election will be held as secretary of the Petróleos Mexicanos union, which also gives rise to being an example in terms of union freedom and democracy, in addition to the integration of electronic voting ”.
According to the election process presented by Mayor Luján, which is being developed in five stages, it will have an electronic voting system on the platform called Sirvolab, in addition it will have 400 public servants of the STPS and the Federal Center of Conciliation and Labor Registration.
It should be noted that the oil workers will have only one day to carry out the electoral day, (January 31, 2022); the electronic count will be carried out from the end of the established voting time. Once the counting process is finished, the corresponding act is prepared to document the result of the election, which will be validated by the members of the electoral committee and the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration. This can be published once the process is completed.
Final implementation of the labor reform
As the second priority issue, Luisa María Alcalde highlighted that the third and last stage of implementation of the labor reform will be carried out, corresponding then “to the entities that are more difficult, since they are the largest and are those with the greatest activity economic and therefore greater conflict, three stand out: Mexico City, Jalisco and Nuevo León, in such a way that it will be a very important challenge ”.
In this sense, he argued that in 2022 the application of the new labor model will enter fully, which “constitutes a responsibility of the Mexican State as a whole, hence the importance of coordinated work, to settle the historical debt with workers and employers in order to to specify at the national level, a fundamental change in the world of work ”.
The states in which the local and federal conciliation centers will begin operations, as well as the federal and local labor courts are: Chihuahua, Mexico City, Coahuila, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Yucatán. This last stage will have to be carried out in May 2022.
New ways of working, up for debate
In addition to the topics discussed, the Secretary of Labor explained that there are new ways of working in which special attention must be paid and fully enter into their discussion.
“There are two additional issues that are added to the challenges of this 2022. It is the discussion on digital platforms, and the second is the regularization of workers in the agricultural export sectors,” said Mayor Luján, as it is intended not to incur in faults within the T-MEC that may impact exports.
Regarding work by platforms, it is worth noting that there are already initiatives in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, where it is intended to recognize drivers and delivery men as wage earners, in order to guarantee their labor rights such as vacations. , Christmas bonus, social security, compensation for unjustified dismissal or disability due to accident, hence it will be an issue that will be reviewed.
With regard to agricultural export workers, important points have been made regarding the wages of day laborers; as well as the presence of child and forced labor, for Mexico has even been included in a list with products such as green beans, chili, cucumber, eggplant, melon, onion, sugar cane, tobacco and the tomato, and that is being reviewed.
In this sense, organizations such as Agricultural Export Workers, analyze the trend in the income of day laborers in general, and of day laborers in export agriculture; at what levels are these incomes today between the two groups, individually and at the household level, and what differences are there in wage levels between states, crops, by gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions.
In its article 23.4, the Mexico-United States-Canada Treaty (T-MEC) raises the principle of non-derogation, prohibits the promotion of trade or investment by weakening or reducing the protections granted in the labor laws of each country.
pilar.martinez@eleconomista.mx
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