Raise formality to expand the scope of salary improvement, asks the CCE

The president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Francisco Cervantes Díaz, urged the federal government to encourage and promote formality to increase job creation and avoid social unrest.

After President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed that informality and migration were two valves that prevented social conflicts and economic crises, the leader of the country’s business sector differed on the matter, and assured that this is called “unfair competition.”

“There we have a point of distance, because our position is, on the contrary. For us, informality is called unfair competition and we do have that our position is, on the contrary, ”she commented in an interview after participating in the launch of the Detection More Action campaign against breast cancer.

Francisco Cervantes proposed that public policies be developed that promote labor legality and formality, since informality represents unfair competition for companies that comply with their fiscal, labor, salary obligations and other rights with workers.

To promote formality in the country, the business sector will propose an increase in the minimum wage for 2023, but it will be “realistic”, according to the situation that the Mexican economy is experiencing.

“We are going for a salary that is not going to break the balance, especially in inflation, so that it is not going to shoot up and at the time it shoots up, because it is useless to raise it because everything goes up, the basic basket and, then it would be a ladder not to reach”, he explained.

lilia.gonzalez@eleconomista.mx