Sheinbaum: 40 Hour Work Debate & Vote Delayed til February 2026
Delays and increased business demands have provoked some unions, who initially agreed with the 2030 timeline, to demand an immediate implementation of the 40 hour workweek.
Labor
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Unions Want 30% Minimum Wage Increase in 2026
The raise would finally bring the purchasing power of the minimum wage up to the level it had 50 years ago in 1976, as workers have experienced decades of neoliberalism and superexploitation by foreign capital.
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“Life isn’t just about work”: Why the 40-Hour Week Can’t Wait
Mexico’s National Front for the 40-hour Workweek marks its second anniversary with nationwide mobilizations demanding an immediate reduction in working hours, in a country that works the most in the OECD.
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Unions Across Mexico are Demanding Immediate Approval of the 40 Hour Workweek
Thousands of trade unionists gathered outside Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies to deliver the message that the union movement will not allow the reform to be diluted or for the business sector to impose conditions that limit its scope.
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CNTE Sets Up Protest Outside Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies
The CNTE teachers’ union leadership pointed out that the federal government “has only offered delaying tactics; its statements are far from the reality experienced by thousands of teachers throughout the country.”
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Over 11,000 Labour Complaints Registered on Mexico’s New Platform
The most frequent complaints filed by workers in Mexico concern unpaid wages, minimum wage, Christmas bonus, working hours, partial or non-payment of profit sharing.
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Mexico’s Ban on Outsourcing Revealed Massive Profit-Sharing Evasion
For years, corporations in Mexico used outsourcing to evade financial obligations to workers, pocketing tens of billions, until a 2021 outsourcing ban closed their lucrative, exploitative loophole.
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Six Structural Barriers Hinder Gender Equality in Mexican Workplaces
Equality is not a concession or a favor, it is an act of justice. As long as women’s work remains invisible, there will be no economic justice.
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November is a Key Month for Work Week Reduction Reform
90 years ago, the ILO defined the 40 hour workweek as an international standard. Mexico still has, in 2025, a 48 hour workweek, one of the longest in the world.
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High School Teachers Demonstrate, Demand Salary Equalization
Outside Mexico’s National Palace, they called on the federal government to “not fall into the game of passing the buck”, for President Sheinbaum to listen & comply with their 2023 agreement or they would implement a national work stoppage.
