Major Planned Labor Measures

Mexico's new president is aiming for annual double-digit minimum wage hikes during her term that, along with other planned employer mandates, could increase labor costs.

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Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, inaugurated on October 1, 2024, has announced planned measures to, among other things, eliminate the gender pay gap and extend social security coverage to digital platform workers. Sheinbaum also announced policy objectives to continue the prior administration's practice of ongoing significant minimum wage increases and to pursue passage of legislation that would shorten the statutory normal workweek. Sheinbaum's ruling Morena party and its allies have comfortable majorities in both houses of Congress, making approval of the government's legislative proposals likely.