LatinNews Daily - 2 May 2025

*Mexico’s government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that it will reduce the working week “gradually” from 48 hours to 40 by January 2030. Sheinbaum made the announcement on International Workers’ Day on 1 May, which saw protesters take to the street to demand a reduction in the working week, among other things. Sheinbaum said that working tables would be established, “so that we can sit down with businessmen, union representatives and workers to see how we are going to achieve this working week”. She added that it “cannot be achieved from one day to the next”, but the important thing was figuring out how to do it and for this to be by consensus. Labour Minister Marath Baruch Bolaños emphasised that his team will oversee the gradual establishment of the 40-hour work week. “We will gradually reduce the working week to a total of 40 hours per week by January 2030 at the latest,” he said. “In this way, we are responding to a historic demand of the Mexican people.” Previous efforts to implement a 40-hour working week in Mexico have stalled in congress. Mexicans currently work some of the longest hours among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

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