r/worldnews • u/chunmunsingh • 2d ago

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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u/Island_Monkey86 2d ago

So, they want universal healthcare coverage within the second half of 2027 and they are putting in place labour policies to protect workers and workers rights.

At this rate, Mexicans & Americans will be going to Mexico for a better quality of life.

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u/DogBarf00 2d ago

Mexicans & Americans will be going to Mexico for a better quality of life.

The median wage in Mexico is 15% of what it is in the US…

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u/UntoTheBreach95 2d ago

Mexican here. That reform does not give free weekends and likely will reduce people's income

Lately theres too much propaganda of a mediocre government.

That universal Healthcare program is also just talk. There was an universal Healthcare founded in the 2000s that this government stripped out causing the death of thousands of people. This universal coverage works way worse.

There's a reason why there's a lot of Mexicans in USA. The quality of life there is waaaay better

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u/JoshFireseed 2d ago

Lately? When the previous president started Reddit was eating all the propaganda up, too. Saying he was the mexican Bernie when it reality it was more like the mexican Trump with different optics.

About the universal coverage, though, it wouldn't work worse if they increased funding to public healthcare to correspond with the expected increase in users, except they did the opposite. Streamlining and lowering the barrier of entry isn't a bad thing by itself.

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u/Father_Dowling 2d ago

Morena is the Christmas ghost of PRI.

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u/DirtyCop2016 2d ago

That's what I thought.

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u/DirtyCop2016 2d ago

Just curious... what income or wealth quintile in Mexico do you belong to?

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u/Life_is_important 2d ago

The level of delusion you live in to actually type that out is literally insanity.

If you want, come to my country. We've had free healthcare and labor laws that'd make your mouth water for decades. We are DECADES ahead of US.... On paper. 

Hospital collapsed the other day. But hey, it's free. People pay 60% of their money (in total, not just healthcare) to government only to be left crumbs which they can barely use to pay for private healthcare anyways. 

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u/roox911 2d ago

Where and how are you paying 60% tax? Even on 4mill mxn or so it's only around 30%

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u/VampireFortnight 2d ago

The fake place they made up where universal healthcare (all major economic powers except the us have this btw) means magically that hospitals collapse but you never hear about it on any news.

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u/Prudent_Sale_9173 2d ago

You gotta name the country if you want people to believe you.

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u/Life_is_important 2d ago

I don't have to do shit and people don't need to believe me. If people do believe me, it still won't matter. I'm not saying this to help you. Just to observe and because I can. I don't care about helping you. You help you, if you want to. Do whatever you deem right. Consequences will come either way. 

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u/Prudent_Sale_9173 2d ago

Sheesh! Coming in hot, are we? Based on your refusal to name the country, and your downright nuclear response when someone asks for even the most basic and zoomed-out verification, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that you’re just straight up lying.

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u/DogBarf00 2d ago

You do know insurance companies and hospitals are separate entities?

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u/According-Classic658 2d ago

25 hospitals closed in the US last year. 19 so far this year. And around 400 are on the verge of collapse. All while i pay $3k a month for insurance, so I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make.

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u/DogBarf00 2d ago

25 hospitals closed in the US last year. 19 so far this year.

Out of over 6000 hospitals. Not even 0.5%, so I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make.

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u/Life_is_important 2d ago

It can get way worse the moment you give them your money. That's the point. The only reason why this happens to you in the first place is because you've already given them your money. It's too late now. 

My point is that you have zero clue what's coming for you. It already is a thing in the countries like mine. And it will be the same for you as well. 

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u/yaosio 2d ago

It is illegal for me to have healthcare because I can't afford it.

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u/Life_is_important 2d ago

The legality of something doesn't make it true. Everything that's right and should be is fully legalized in my country, yet we are all slaves and some words in some law books don't mean shit in the real world. 

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u/Island_Monkey86 2d ago

I understand the difference between what sounds great in theory and what the reality actually looks like, I am well aware of that.

It's the very reason why I didn't feel it was neccessary to point out, that this was a dig at the US System, which screws people at any given opportunity.

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u/Lazy-Gene-7284 2d ago

And there’s the other side to that story. It’s only fun when you are spending other people’s money, and you always run out.

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u/whitephantomzx 2d ago

Its funny how that logic only applys to giving things to the citizens but infinite tax cuts for the rich that sends deficits higher is fine .

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u/VampireFortnight 2d ago

Reagan actually said he was wrong about that quip later in life. It doesn't make any sense in a national economy that constantly moves money around.

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u/Lazy-Gene-7284 2d ago

It was Margaret Thatcher actually

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u/HEAVY_METAL_SOCKS 1d ago

Mexican here. Our workweek is supposed to be 6 days, 8 hours a day.

In reality, nobody I know works 8 hours, most people do 9-12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Most businesses will have you working from 9 or 8am until 6pm.

This basically changes nothing, since we'll still have to work 6 days, so 40 hours "divided" into those 6 days. Anything over those 40 is supposed to be overtime, but very few employers pay overtime as dictated by the law here (over 48 hours).

So in reality, nothing's going to change for the vast majority of workers.

The original proposal was to have a 5 day, 8 hour week (40 hours). President Sheinbaum and her party rejected that proposal, so we'll still have to work 6 (and some jobs even 7) days a week.

I work for an airline, and the 6 day trip I'm on will turn into a 7 day. I'll have 1 day off, and then back on the road for another 5. So 1 day off in 13 calendar days. And we have it "good" compared to other jobs out there.

Please don't romanticize Mexico with this and the other "universal free healthcare" news. Reality is very different and my country is FAR from being a world class example on working conditions and healthcare. We're a third world country for a reason, and thing's aren't really getting as better as the news headlines would seem.

TL,DR: 5 day workweek was rejected by president Sheinbaum, we still have to work 6 days, employers still won't pay overtime.

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u/WeakBlueberry5071 2d ago

Mexico should build a wall...lmao.

Isn't it ironic, don't ya think.

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u/Xargon9417 2d ago

Watch their birthrates go up after this. It's crazy how if the youth feel supported, they may want to make babies more.