Having been on the political agenda in Mexico for months, the heated issue of how subcontracting and outsourcing is governed is soon to be discussed in the country’s upper and lower houses of parliament as part of a so-called ‘Open Parliament’, a mechanism that allows for a plural and transparent debate between parliament and civil society.
Last week, Mexico believed for a few hours that outsourcing (terciarización) was going to be outlawed. In an incredible legislative episode, a bill seeking to assimilate this practice to ‘organised crime’, tabled by senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia (of the governing, left-leaning party Morena), was adopted on the quiet by the senate’s labour committee. The elected official, a figure of the Mexican left and mining trade unionism, took advantage of the absence of opposition senators to pass his...
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