From support for MSMEs, continuous salary increases, to unemployment insurance and emergency vital income, are some of the proposals of the presidential candidates in labor matters.
This May 1, the last month of the presidential campaign begins and within the framework of International Labor Day we present the labor proposals of Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate of Sigamos Hazando Historia (Morena, PT and PVEM), Xóchitl Gálvez, candidate of Fuerza y Corazón for Mexico (PRI, PAN and PRD), and Jorge Álvarez Máynez, standard bearer of Movimiento Ciudadano.
Claudia Sheinbaum
The former head of Government of Mexico City includes four main proposals in her government project “Republic with work and a fair salary.” Sheinbaum Pardo proposes to continue with annual increases to the minimum wage in agreement with the business sector with the objective that it covers 2.5 basic monthly baskets.
Likewise, it is committed to continuing the recovery of fair pensions and “rolling back the pension reform of the neoliberal period.” The ruling party’s standard-bearer also proposes minimum salaries higher than the average for workers registered in Social Security for basic education teachers, police, members of the National Guard, soldiers, sailors, medical and nursing personnel.
Sheinbaum Pardo also proposes “promoting the mandatory nature of social security for telephone application delivery workers who are currently hired outside the law.”
Other proposals linked to labor issues include food sovereignty, the continuity of the Sembrando Vida program and other programs for agricultural laborers to promote small and medium-sized agricultural producers.
Xochitl Galvez
The opposition presidential candidate includes her job proposals in the areas of economy and countryside.
The main proposals are support for micro, small and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs); the creation of the National Agency for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Productivity to “serve small businesses, attract and create seed capital funds, technical advice, mentoring and links with strategic productive sectors and foreign trade.”
Gálvez Ruiz also supports an industrial policy to link small companies with large production chains, simplification and reduction of the tax burden for MSMEs, entrepreneurship programs for young people and women, and streamlining tax refunds for entrepreneurs.
The President and his corcholata lied to us Mexicans saying that they were not going to touch the pension system.
Let it be clear: that money is the life savings of the workers, it is not Morena’s wool.
With me, they will have a real government that defends savings… pic.twitter.com/PcGTK7xsUH
— Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz (@XochitlGalvez) April 19, 2024
For MSMEs, it also proposes new schemes for incorporation into social security according to their capabilities and the creation of an Ombudsperson for MSMEs, who will be in charge of defending fundamental rights before the public powers.
Likewise, the woman from Hidalgo proposes special employment programs for women and young people in the countryside, livestock insurance, promotion of fishing and aquaculture, guaranteed prices for small producers and “a temporary work visa program for migrants from Central America.”
Another of the strategies that Xóchitl Gálvez has defended during the presidential campaign is the use of nearshoring, that is, the promotion of international manufacturing chains. Likewise, in the last presidential debate he proposed that all people who earn less than 15 thousand pesos per month be exempt from paying taxes.
Jorge Álvarez Máynez
The Citizen Movement candidate has in his project “To build a prosperous Mexico” proposals for financing programs for rural producers, as well as promoting decent rural pensions.
For micro, small and medium-sized companies, it is committed to streamlining payments to guarantee their liquidity, changing monthly accounting statements to quarterly, rewarding the compliance of MSMEs that comply with their tax, administrative and labor obligations.
Álvarez Máynez also proposes eliminating social security contributions in a gradual and orderly manner in order to decouple people’s employment status from access to health and reduce the cost of entrepreneurship.
In New Mexico we will defend the rights and causes of workers. 👷🏻👷🏻♀️
Next to @AlvarezMaynez President, we will make it happen. 👊😎
Do you want to know how? Get to know the proposals:
New Mexico is serious. 🧡🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/KlUfy0RGTU
— Citizen Movement | Orange Movement (@MovCiudadanoMX) May 1, 2024
In his electoral platform, the Emecista includes guaranteed labor rights and income, unemployment insurance and emergency vital income programs; as well as progressive tax reform.
During his participation in the second presidential debate, he advocated for recovering reforms in Congress such as the reduction of the working day from 48 to 40 hours and the increase in bonus days for workers.
2024-05-01 19:55:03
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