Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, will take office on October 1, 2024. A month after her electoral triumph, the president-elect started introducing the future members of her presidential cabinet, including...more
Mexico’s General Law to Prevent, Punish, and Eradicate Crimes Related to Human Trafficking and for the Protection and Assistance to the Victims of These Crimes (“Human Trafficking Law”) has as its purpose to protect the life,...more
Approximately sixty-four countries, plus the European Union, will head to the polls in 2024. June 2, 2024, will be the biggest election day taking place in Mexico, when the president (possibly the first female president),...more
On April 3, 2024, the Mexican Supreme Court confirmed the requirement to pay up to three months of base salary for profit-sharing (PTU) payments....more
Because the license renewal process for providers of outsourced specialized services in Mexico is starting, outsourcing providers may want to consider a few points in order to properly comply and not have their registrations...more
On February 21, 2024, Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare published in the Official Gazette of the Federation guidance for the process for renewing a registration as a provider of specialized outsourced services in...more
A wide range of employment-related laws will be implemented or updated in Mexico in 2024, including a revision of the list of occupational diseases and permanent disabilities, an increase in the minimum wage, and an update to...more
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Mexico’s final congressional ordinary session period for 2023 ended on December 15. Unless an extraordinary session is called, pending bills are now dormant until February 2024 when the first ordinary session of the year...more
Effective January 1, 2024, the daily minimum wage applicable will be MXN $374.89 (approximately USD $21.83) for the Free Zone of the Northern Border (Zona Libre de la Frontera Norte, ZLFN) and MXN $248.93 (approximately USD...more
Mexico’s Congress has continued to make progress on several legislative items of importance to employers and employees alike, including, most especially, a proposed reduction in the maximum number of workweek hours....more
12/8/2023
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Effective December 5, 2023, the Mexican Official Standard NOM-037-STPS-2023, Telework-Safety and Health Conditions (NOM-037), will become enforceable. Accordingly, employers in Mexico that have employees who render services...more
This week, November 5–11, 2023, Mexico’s Congress has continued to make progress on several legislative items that would amend the Federal Labor Law (FLL), including bills to amend or increase: (i) the list of diseases that...more
11/13/2023
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This week, October 22–29, 2023, Mexico’s Congress has continued to advance several pieces of legislation that would amend the Federal Labor Law (FLL), including bills that would make changes to wage and hour requirements,...more
Regardless of hierarchy or job position, employees in Mexico are entitled to paid vacation days as a statutory mandatory benefit. Vacation days shall be granted to employees at least pursuant to the minimum statutory terms...more
As May 30, 2023, approaches, so does the deadline for employers in Mexico to comply with the obligation of calculating and distributing profit-sharing (PTU) payments to employees. The following answers to nine frequently...more
On July 31, 2019, Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (Secretaria del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS)) published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación, or DOF) the protocol for...more
On February 3, 2023, Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social) (STPS) published in the Official Gazette of the Federation an amendment to the guidelines regarding the Registry...more
On December 14, 2022, Mexico’s Senate of the Republic approved the final project to modify Articles 76 and 78 of the Federal Labor Law (FLL), under which employees will be entitled to more mandatory and paid vacation days. ...more
On December 1, 2022, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that, unanimously, the business and labor sectors, as well as the government, had agreed to increase the minimum wage by 20 percent for 2023, which...more
After several months of discussion and uncertainty, on November 3, 2022, Mexico’s Senate of the Republic approved a bill that would modify articles 76 and 78 of Mexico’s Federal Labor Law (FLL) to entitle employees to more...more
Mexico’s Ministry of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación) has determined that all Brazilian nationals who intend to travel to Mexico as visitors without permission to perform remunerated activities...more
On January 11, 2021, the federal government published a decree in the Official Gazette of the Federation, amending the Federal Labor Law (FLL) to regulate the terms and conditions, employer and employee obligations, and...more
On January 12, 2021, the right to disconnect (known in other countries as the “right to digital disconnection”) became an employment right in Mexico for employees in telework arrangements, with the publication of an amendment...more
Mexico’s federal government will soon cease updating its COVID-19 pandemic monitoring system on a biweekly basis, Dr. Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s undersecretary of prevention and health promotion, said in a recent press...more
Mexico’s federal government has indicated that the National Health Council will soon decree the end of the pandemic in Mexico. The expected announcement comes on the heels of signs that COVID-19 cases are significantly...more