Morena cede a presión de empresarios y congela aumento a 12 días de vacaciones (msn.com)
Link is in Spanish.
Last month, Senate approved a bill that, starting in 2023, would double the minimum number of paid vacation days that workers are entitled to after working at the same place for one year: 12 from 6.
As it stands right now, Mexico is one of those countries with the least amount of mandatory vacation days, where workers start at 6 and receive two additional days off after every subsequent year, for a maximum of 28 days after more than 40 years!(After 10 years, workers only get 2 more days every 4 years)
Private sector chimed in and urged to reconsider the ability for workers to take all 12 days consecutively and to instead break them off into a maximum of two separate 6 day vacations and to fully implement the change until 2024 so companies have time to “prepare”.
Another “reason” used to fight this change claims that it would put more pressure on small and medium businesses with a low number of employees who would be greatly affected by workers taking prolonged vacations.
You'd think this is something that everyone could get to agree needed reform but, no, apparently an employee taking two weeks off after their first year at work is too much. Wages in Mexico are known to be extremely low in the first place, with the highest paid salaries being found in upper management at larger businesses and government. Low wages and low mandatory vacation days per year inevitably lead to an incredibly stressed out workforce.