On December 5, 2018, Mexico's Senate Joint Commissions on
Education and Legislative Studies approved a bill to amend the
Education General Law and the Federal Labor Law to grant working
parents the legal right to take time off from work to participate
in their children's school activities. This
initiative—pending approval by Mexico's House of
Representatives—would require the Ministry of Labor to
implement the necessary regulations to allow flexibility for
working parents to take school-related leave without being required
to make up that time so long as they provide proof of such school
activities.
Although the bill's legislative language does not specify
the length of the leave, its frequency, eligibility to take such
leave, or compensation, the intent is based on American
jurisprudence, as some U.S. states provide for unpaid leaves of
absence for school-related activities with monthly or yearly
caps.
