• PRESSURE: The López Obrador Administration has stepped up labor inspections into irregular hiring practices and abusive contracting putting special attention on outsourcing services for the first time in history, according to Mexican private sector sources and labor lawyers.
• TOUGH: “During the inspections they are asking of us now that given the obligations we have as beneficiaries of the service, that we prove that our outsourcing complies with employers obligations”, a private sector source in the Mexican food industry told Reforma newspaper.
• PRECARITY: According to the most recent data from Mexico’s statistics agency (INEGI), the number of Mexican workers -both in the private and public sectors- without access to mandated employee benefits reached 14.5 million in the third quarter of 2019 (a quarter of active population).
• NOTICE: “If that was allowed in the past and if the previous Administration did not make a single inspection in terms of outsourcing, it’s an issue that we will not allow [now]”, said Luisa María Alcalde, Mexico’s Labor Minister during a private event last week according to remarks provided by her office.
