The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorasked this Tuesday to postpone until after the June 2 elections the discussion in Congress of the reforms that would double the bonusthey would extend the paternity leave and would reduce to 40 hours per week workday.
“I am in favor of waiting for the people to choose because now there is a lot of demagoguery,” said the president in his morning conference.
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The Mexican president responded to questions from the press about the limited progress of these reforms on labor rights in Congress despite the fact that his party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), and its allies have the majority.
Just last week, The united commissions of Labor and Social Welfare and Legislative Studies endorsed a reform that would increase the paternity leave that men can request from the current five days to a total of 20but the Government's Treasury Secretary asked to reduce the proposal to 10 days.
While the Senate's Labor and Social Welfare Commission approved a ruling last month that would raise the obligatory year-end bonus or bonus from 15 to 30 days of salary.which aroused criticism from the Employers' Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex).
And also in February, deputy Susana Prieto, author of the reform that seeks to reduce the working day from 48 to 40 hours a week, resigned from Morena due to the lack of support from the president's party for the initiative, which was to be discussed in plenary session on last year.
The president rejected that his party has abandoned labor causesbut insisted that the June 2 elections must occur first, when the country's presidency, the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the 128 in the Senate will be renewed.
Let's wait and see what people say. No (a popular consultation), once (the elections) pass. “Demagogic offers abound, I can't talk about that, but people realize it perfectly,” he said.
López Obrador's lack of definition on these issues has generated controversy, especially because he has supported other labor initiatives, such as increasing the minimum wage, reforms to the pension system, union democracy and the elimination of 'outsourcing' or subcontracting.
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