Mexico’s landmark labor reforms, which will make trade unions as well as conciliation and dispute resolution mechanisms more democratic, were a pre-requisite for ratification by the US and Canada of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Below is a detailed summary of the reforms.
On 29 April 2019, Mexico’s Senate definitively adopted the most ambitious and far-reaching labor reform legislation in its entire history. Mexico’s Democratic-Socialist President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, elected in 2018, stated, “Mexico has done its part in modifying the Federal Labor Law and it is now up to the United States to ratify the free-trade agreement, because we want this agreement.” The text, which the Executive promulgated, was published in the Official Journal of the Federation on 01 May 2019. It will be implemented by the Labor Ministry ‘as rapidly as possible’ whilst similarly, parliaments from the three USMCA signatory countries have to agree in the coming days on examining and ratifying the free-trade agreement.
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