Mexico City, (EFE) .- In Mexico at least 40 million people lack decent work, without sufficient salary and without access to health and social security services, citizen action organizations indicated in the face of poverty and civic data.
In the presentation of the decent Labor Observatory (OTD), a portal that shows indicators on obvious, systematic and structural violations to the right to decent work, it was also pointed out that 21.5 million more Mexicans “are excluded from their right to work” and that the situation “is more serious” now that before the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Almost 40 million people lack decent work in Mexico and we are counting only those who do not have enough income and those who do not have social security,” said Rogelio Gómez, president of Citizen Action against poverty.
He added that “poverty wages, poorly called informal work, which are actually work without social insurance, without labor rights, days greater than 40 hours and jobs without defense, without contract, without affiliation are poverty factories.”
He pointed out that many jobs lack the means of defense as a right to stable hiring, collective bargaining and union affiliation.
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Therefore, the observatory seeks to insist “that this reality must change, because work is a human right, not a merchandise.”
Women and young people, those affected
Ana Paulina González, responsible for investigation and citizen action data against poverty, stressed that the purpose of this tool is to make visible working conditions that produce poverty and inequality in Mexico.
“The observatory indicators allow us to clearly see that the root of poverty has to do with labor exclusion and precariousness, which also affect women and young people to a greater extent,” González said.
In the first quarter of the year, people who work and gain poverty wages
While prior to pandemic, in this situation were 30.4 million people, which was then 62% of the employed population.
In Mexico, the basic basket for May has an average cost of 910 pesos (about 48 dollars) and consists of 24 essential products for a family of four members to meet their nutritional and hygiene needs.
It also includes egg, lemon, apple, pineapple, box white bread, toilet paper, chicken, beef and pork, corn tortilla, rice, oil, onion and beans.
Other deficiencies
In addition to insufficient salaries, the OTD reports that about 35.1 million people who work face work without social security, that is, 60% of the employed population, and before the pandemic were 34.2 million.
Among those who work in jobs without stable contract are 18.6 million, against 18.9 million five years ago, while without union affiliation are 33.1 million, against 30.9 million of 2020.
“These millions of workers lack collective organization, representation for the negotiation of their working conditions. In addition, 14.4 million have days greater than 48 hours and the 40 -hour day is being discussed, because there are people who work above 48 and still do not win enough,” said Rogelio Gómez.
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