Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign
Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.
Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.
There are companies trying to fight this because they wanted more work hours per week instead of less, despite Mexico being one of the countries with the longest legal work day (as in, without counting overtime, paid or otherwise). So far the only thing that's happened is that a compromise was reached to make this rollout go soft (reducing 2 hours/week per year until 2030) and iirc some regions (like mine) have asked for a time extension on top of that, probably because this change fucks with pre-existing B2B contracts (and because let's face it, companies don't want to have to ask for less from their workers).
But yeah, this is real and excellent news.
