Mexico City Reform Rebuff Sets Stage for Sheinbaum’s Leadership Litmus Test

Mexico City.― Ricardo Monrealcoordinator of the deputies of Morenaconfirmed that the ruling for reducing the work day to 40 hours was scrapped.

And it’s just this October 1st Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo listed in his 100 government commitments the promise to approve the constitutional reform for reduce the working day from 48 to 40 hours in Mexico.

In this regard, Ricardo Monreal Ávila was the one who clarified this Wednesday, October 2, that the ruling was rejected in the previous Legislature.

That opinion had been approved in committees 18 months ago, and was in the hands of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies.

They focused only on AMLO reforms

Monreal clarified that at the end of the previous Legislature, all the unapproved initiatives were discarded and for the new period in Congress only the package of 20 proposed reforms constitutional February 5 by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

What will happen to Sheinbaum’s promise to reduce the work day to 40 hours?

And now? The Zacatecas legislator said that the legislative process will have to start again and pointed out that it must be defined whether the initiative will be sent again by the President of the Republic herself or if the members of Morena will have the task of preparing it.

Monreal explained that, following the instructions of Claudia Sheinbaum, the 40-hour work week will be deliberated again, which will be gradual, and in consensus with businessmen.

“He issued a position and one of his points is that Let’s start deliberating the 40 hour week. We are waiting if you send us an initiative or we will formulate it here, but it is good news,” said the deputy about the speech in which the president committed to making this labor reform a reality.

🗳️📌 THE 40 HOURS OPINION WAS DISMISSED: RICARDO MONREAL

Ricardo Monreal, coordinator of the Morena deputies, confirmed what many feared: the ruling to reduce the working day to 40 hours was rejected.

This opinion had been approved in committees 18 years ago… pic.twitter.com/cAXw9CFO3L

— Juan Ortiz 🗳️👁‍🗨 (@Juan_OrtizMX) October 3, 2024

In December 2023, the ruling to reduce the working day was approved in the Constitutional Points Commission in the Chamber of Deputies and sent to the Plenary Session, however, the Board of Directors decided to lower it at the last minute after López Obrador suggested that legislators not rush and open the debate to new forums with the private sector and worker unions.

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