Mexico unanimously approves the extension of vacations to 12 days

The Senate of Mexico unanimously approved this Wednesday the legislative reform called “decent vacations”, that will extend the vacation period of workers from six to 12 days from the first working year.

The project was approved with 116 votes in favor and no dissenting voices, so the measure, which received the approval of the Labor and Social Welfare commissions of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies last week, will enter into force on 1 January 2023.

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The president of the Senate, Alejandro Armenta, announced after the favorable vote that the legislative project that will send the opinion to the Government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “for the corresponding constitutional effects.”

“This Senate of the Republic is pleased with the reform that has just been approved, which will generate well-being for the working classes”he added.

In this way, Mexico tries to correct one of its main labor problems, which placed it at the bottom of Latin American countries in terms of vacation days for its workers.

The reform of articles 76 and 78 of the Federal Labor Law contemplates that workers with more than one year of service enjoy no less than 12 days of paid and continuous vacations.

In addition, it states that for each year worked, vacations will increase by two days until reaching 20, and that once this happens, after the sixth year of service in the company, workers will receive two more days for every five years worked.

Senator Patricia Mercado, from the liberal Movimiento Ciudadano and one of the main promoters of the project, said that vacation days are a right that “no one can haggle”.

“Rights are not negotiated, they are established, recognized and exercised”exposed.

In addition, he stressed that the balance between the different aspects of life is a condition “indispensable” for welfare.

“We do need to work to live, but it is not rational or healthy to live to work,” continuous.

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The reform of the law is achieved after discrepancies between senators and parliamentarians regarding the wording of the text and the contrary position of businessmen, who warned that it would imply an increase in labor costs that would be unsustainable for small companies.

At the beginning of November the Mexican Senate already approved, also unanimously, the extension of vacations, but the reform encountered resistance in the Chamber of Deputies, where some requested to modify the text in line with the claims of the private sector.

Finally, after a negotiation between the two legislative chambers, the text was finally approved.

Source: Elcomercio

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