On 09 December, and less than a month after submitting a bill to Mexico’s Parliament that would prohibit the practice of outsourcing workers (c.f. article No.12224), which is largely implemented and abused, the Head of State presented a tripartite agreement to ‘regulate’ the practice of outsourcing in companies. While the reform project does still remain on the table, discussions have been postponed until February 2021.
So it will no longer be a question of ‘prohibiting’ outsourcing, as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador triumphantly declared on 12 November when presenting his government’s bill, but instead it will be a question of regulating the practice that is regularly accused of encouraging tax evasion, social security under-payments and even non-attribution of social benefits.
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