He President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that at the beginning of December the new increase in the minimum wage for 2024 in Mexico could be known; Likewise, he announced that there is already a formal proposal for an increase from one sector. Missing? In the following paragraphs, we will tell you.
It should be noted that the president had already committed in a morning conference, at the beginning of October, to raising the minimum wage. “What I can say and commit to is that the salary will continue to increase, that is my commitment, the review is coming at the end of the year and we are going to propose that it continue to increase as a priority in labor policy”he indicated on that occasion.
WHICH SECTOR PRESENTED ITS PROPOSAL AND WHAT IS MISSING FOR THE INCREASE TO HAPPEN?
The Mexican president revealed that the labor sector had already presented its proposalwhich he did not make known out of respect for the negotiation, and that only the business sector was missingwith whom he hopes to reach a conciliation.
In this sense, he remembered that once they talked, The National Minimum Wages Commission (Conasami) will resolve the increase. As is known, this entity is in charge of regulating the bases and elements for setting minimum wages in Mexico.
“The commission has to meet, there are already proposals, I’m just not going to say it now, because it is the Commission that decides, but the labor sector has already presented a proposal, the business sector needs to present its formal proposal and then we always seeking conciliation; because in only one year there has been no consensus, there has been no agreement, only one year in four years have the three parties reached an agreement and I hope that an agreement will be reached now, which we will announce at the beginning of December.” , said.
HOW MUCH IS THE MINIMUM WAGE IN MEXICO IN 2023?
Since January 1, 2023, the minimum wage in Mexico increased by 20% compared to the previous year; that is to say, went from 172.87 to 207.44 pesos per daybenefiting 6.4 million formal workers. “This represented 1,052 additional pesos per month for the workers, and the recovery of 90% of the purchasing power of these salaries”it is read in the bulletin of the Government of the Aztec country.
Likewise, also on that same date, The increase in the Northern Border Free Zone came into forcemade up of 43 municipalities in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, where workers receive a minimum payment of 312.41 pesos per day this 2023.
Meanwhile, the new minimum professional salaries increased by 20%. Therefore, domestic workers began to receive a salary of 225.5 pesos per day in the rest of the country and 312.41 pesos in the Northern Border Free Zone.