A reduction of the working day to 40 hours a week will cost 2 billion pesos for Mexican companies, according to the director of the Inter -institutional Center for Applied Research of the University of the Caribbean, Pedro Moncada Jiménez.
“The annual impact of this reform is 2 billion pesos, that is, 2 million million,” said the academic in the last forum on the reduction of the working day, made in Cancun.
Gathered businessmen presented the impact of the necessary changes to give workers a 40 -hour work week, similar to the one in Europe and the United States.
Octavio de la Torre de Stéffano, president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco Servytur), warned that the reform to reduce the working day from 48 to 40 hours will ensure the labor costs of the micro, small and medium enterprises, which would have to pay 65,793 pesos per year by a single worker.
This cost for companies, especially for micro, could mean “the difference between surviving or closing.”
De la Torre explained that this increase includes higher costs for social security, bonus, holidays and tax adjustments, in an economic environment where 54.3 % of workers are already in informality and economy barely grows 0.4 % annual, according to projections of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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“67.2 % of our entrepreneurs do not approve the reform without support, because a MSME could pay up to 65,793 additional pesos a year for a single worker,” said the employer.
In addition, he explained that 71.4% of the members of the organization foresee operational increases, 58.8% difficulties in maintaining their level of service and 29% fear a fall in sales or productivity.
Micro, small and medium -sized companies would have to cover 29,000 pesos for Social Security, 5,000 per vacation, 6,000 per Aguinaldo and 23,000 for the adjustment of the annual day, he explained.
The business leader said that Mexican family businesses are not in a position to apply this reform in their current form, due to the impact it would represent on their viability and operation.
He said that the tertiary sector – conformed by 5.2 million businesses, mostly micro, small and medium -sized family businesses – generates 66% of GDP, 70% of formal employment and more than 77% of the VAT raised in the country.
“We are not against labor well -being, we are in favor of sustainable well -being, with clear rules and with a firm floor for those who do comply,” he said.
Among the proposals of the Concanaco Servytur are a gradual with differentiated criteria according to the size, rotation and location of the company; fiscal stops at 40 effective hours and total payroll deduction for companies that formalize.
“It is not about stopping change, but also doing well. A poorly designed labor reform puts at risk formality, employment and economic stability. We propose to build a reform that works for all: workers, companies and the country,” he said of the tower.
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“If we build a wrong reform, the effect will be the opposite: more informality and less worthy employment,” he said.
The president of the National Chamber of the RESTAURANTS AND CONDUCED FOOD INDUSTRY (CANIRAC), Ignacio Alarcón Rodríguez Pacheco, warned that the measure, far from benefiting, would harm workers such as the waiters, reducing their work time, since much of their income comes from tips.
“90% of income are via tips. What happens? People have a fixed salary, but to save and have a better quality of life depends on tips,” he said.
The general secretary of the National Metallurgical Mining Union, Carlos Pavón Campos, agreed that these types of measures affect the worker by limiting extra hours: “Reducing all this is to take us to work poverty, as happened when ranking the profits in the law against outsourcing.”
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“We are going to lose even more. We need to earn more money. The worker who needs will look for the form … if he used to get 5,000 or 9,000 more, we must see how not affecting his income,” Djo.
The president of the security groups linked by Mexico, Armando Zúñiga Salinas, warned that their sector cannot adjust to the reduction of hours due to the 24 -hour shifts required to protect public and private spaces: “This endangers the safety of people and protected goods.”
The Undersecretary of Labor Employment and Productivity, Quia Chávez Rodríguez, said that all expressions and proposals to travel to the 40 -hour work week will be taken into account, with the aim of advancing in the quality of employment without affecting the viability of companies and businesses.
The reduction of the working day from 48 to 40 hours a week is currently under discussion in Congress.
With EFE information
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