I had to execute a contract with a supplier in Mexico recently and they have a law (REPSE) that means you cannot engage a sub contractor when instead there’s a reasonable argument that you could employ them instead.
It’s to protect an empire being manipulated and not receive benefits. They really do look out for their employee rights which is great to see
This is how serious countrys operate.
They needed the wall built first to cut themselves off from the riffraff
can we get her to be the PM of more countries pls
I thought I read theyre cutting work hours from 48 to 40. Not good enough imo. Thats what were at and still burned out.
Maximum working hours* which is not the same.
Americans sign up for jobs at 40 and if they’re salaried they almost all work at least 45, and are then expected to be contacted out of work.
Word. I had a job that promised no more than 40 and my manager offered unofficial comp time for any overage. Then the economy slowed and they wanted to downsize, so fired me for working less than 40 hours one week a few months before.
Don’t let perfect be enemy of the good.
Agreed. Shes done a hell of a lot more for her constituents than our politicians.
Be honest, that’s not where millions of Americans are. 3 jobs, no overtime, ludicrous living costs is where many Americans are.
It’s worse than that. They’re reducing 2 hours per year until they reach 40, but they’re keeping six work days per week.
Can’t wait for American illegal immigrants to get deported from Mexico
That’s already a problem in Mexico. American immigrants have been moving to the nice parts of Mexico, and they have been inflating the ever living fuck out of the prices there. American money is unmatched, and no Mexican business is going to dumb enough to let it slip by. They’ve been increasing prices and catering to Americans to the point where Mexicans are being squeezed out entirely from the equation.
There are parts of Mexico city where Mexicans are completely priced out. People with houses in the nice parts try to sell them to Americans to get more money. Developers are building condo buildings that cater to American styles, and they’re entirely branded and marketed in English. Businesses in the area notice the increase in Americans walking around and jack up their prices to get a share of the pie themselves, which leads Americans to get another part of the city that’s still cheap to get the most out of their money repeating the cycle. Americans have already been doing this to countries like Spain, Portugal, and Italy, but now they’re doing it to Mexico too.
theoretically, the whole population should be able to profit from the influx of money if it’s properly distributed. that seems to me to be more an issue with taxation than with overtourism.
You’ll never reach a situation where the redistribution compensates in the same proportion than the price increase.
Damn, here I thought I was making a bad joke, but reality seems to be a bad joke these days.
That’s the beauty of the Mexican project. They’re going to accommodate the refugees in a way Americans refused to do. And they’re going to become a better country for it
Hopefully, Mexico will actually achieve the American Dream, rather than being dragged into a nightmare by their capitalists.
Holy shit. Claudia my queen
Just look at the awful things a woman president will do.
Let’s pretend the Queen of England didn’t just finally fuck off or all the other female authoritarians/war criminals, let’s remove her agency and attribute any good she does to being a woman.
It’s more sexist than the implication itself.
Margaret Thatcher was UK’s Reagan. Everything she didn’t ruin herself; she readied to be ruined later.
It wasn’t because she was a woman. It was because she was a freaking neoliberal.
It’s also just really fucking annoying that this platitude comes up every time a headline is posted about a woman doing good, as if people are just incapable of thinking it through.
Neither Clinton nor Harris would have supported this, and in fact, they’d have told their rotating villains to oppose it and claimed powerlessness, as Dems always do. (Which is, in part, why they lost their elections.)
bUt SeXiSm
Okay, run an actual leftist woman and isolate the variables.
I personally think they care way more about losing money and influence than hating women.
The misogyny is just a side gig.
Soon Mexico will have to build a wall to keep Americans out.
And make us pay for it!
I think we already built it and paid for it.
You lot got uno reversed hard on that one.
A bit late that,
Nah americans are too poor and tired to move.
not all of them, for example
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs22MyD8qdgDF-kJyv6Zofw
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHMMMPpc7xI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Piye02JLc
and this guy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuNKV0CMgcVUiJNdA-JNlJA
and a zillion more
I’m pretty sure is zilliona people moved out of USA, only billionaires would be left. But what do I know about US demographics.
And many too racist to even think about it, also too 'Murica brained to think any other place can be better.
As an American, I would love to move to Mexico. I have brought up the idea with my family but there are reasons to stay currently.
Impressive.
we need more social populism. this is a good example of it.
No wonder the CIA is fucking with them.
The billionaires are freaking out
Mi español es muy limitado, but I’m ready to go.
Mexico is amending it’s constitution and the US can’t even pass a budget to keep it’s fucking bridges from collapsing. Meanwhile USA calls Mexico a failed state lol.
its, not it’s.
tits
Its, not “its”.
Name checks out.
You mean pass a bill to borrow more money, to keep the bridges from collapsing.
The government used to tax rich people to fund infrastructure. Now it borrows from them like a crack head at a pay-day-loan shop.
You mean pass a bill to fund genocide with bridge money.
Those are usually earmarked on the back of “save the children” bills
Well, Americans are too cowardly to start breaking shit (and bones). What do you expect?
Don’t know where all the 2015-20 riot energy went.
Even that energy was pretty fucking weak considering the situation. It would have been insufficient even in the face of Bush-era GOP misbehavior.
“The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. […] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce.”
Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:
- Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
- Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
- Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).
Anybody upset about this needs to be upset with their employer. If you need to work over 12 hours a day everyday you’re being severely underpaid. Saying this as a guy that used to do it to survive. My boss would praise me and tell people everyone needed to be more like me while knowing damn well why I was doing what I was doing. Tried to be the empathetic hand while completely exploiting me.
How did you manage to get out from under them?
I did it the hard way. Job hopping! I’m in IT without a degree (I have certs now but didn’t when I started). I have years of experience because I took entry level positions but had gaps in my knowledge due to not having a formal education. I started finding jobs that I had 80% of the know how from previous employers specifically. The pay would always be low for what I was doing, but it was a trade off since I had things to learn. I had to look for companies that weren’t willing to pay top dollar for IT so they’d be willing to ignore my lack of experience on some things.
After landing the job, I’d focus on that 20% specifically for resume bullet points. After 1 year (very important to stay for at least 1 year!), I’d evaluate. Sometimes I’d jump ship taking along with me any references, promotions (job titles are important folks), and certs I could along the way. Sometimes I’d stay longer than a year depending on what was happening. The pay was never right so I knew I wasn’t going to stay.
Most of these places were small to medium sized, toxic, unprofessional, and had high attrition rates.
After years of that, I started landing positions mostly based on the network I built of professional references. I have professional friends that help me out that are higher up on the latter and I have ones that I help / bring up with me that are below me on the latter.
Being honest, this was not the easy way by far and I don’t even know if you could still do what I did.
Today though, I have steady employment working for a large organization. My pay is good but not great. I’m not rich but I can make rent and have some left over for savings working only 40 hours a week. Really that’s all I ever wanted! I’m still working on my career but I’m happy I don’t have to do it while killing myself to not starve anymore!
Well congrats on the place you’ve managed to get to. Thanks for sharing
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I’ve been pro union for a long time, that’s true but why did you feel you needed to respond to me literally asking about someone’s specific and personal pathway to a better situation?
Your comment is unappreciated as it is completely out of place
You’re right, meant to respond elsewhere.
She needs to reform the US, next.
Honestly, companies have legitimately taken advantage of productivity gains from technology over the last 30+years. We get more done individually now than we ever have before, so companies save millions on effectively having less staff, that’re also paid less due to sharp rises of inflation & CoL.
We should be down to 24 hours a week IMO, because I myself piss away about half my week anyway trying to come up with shit to do! I know others are in similar boats.
I own a company, self employed and I set up my business to only need to do 20 billable hours a week. That covers my wage and insurance costs for myself. Obviously at that I’m not making profit as a business but as an employee I am making a good living
It really opened my eyes to how much businesses fuck their employees and how much value i created for the 13 years i worked for others.
I think we should have a law that employees at a company have a right to a share of % of the profits.
Would help incentives workers, too. You’re gonna work harder if you know your efforts actually pay off.
a share of % of the profits.
Hollywood already has the playbook for that. You can have as little “profit” as you need to avoid payouts to people with profit share arrangements. Funny how executive compensation cuts into profits…
Yeah the biggest change for me is now going to work isn’t so bad, don’t get me wrong i don’t love every day, but when I’m still working at 8pm punching a 14 hour day I know it’s all going to support my family, not paying some cunt to sit in an office and get paid for “making the hard decisions”
even better: the workers should own the company. including its profits as well as its decisions.
Just like the first industrial revolution. We’re again in a post industrial gilded age.
Wow, what’s your role and how do I get it?
In IT, some weeks are super busy, but as I’ve improved things at work (upgrading equipment, fixed old issues, automated some repeat processes, etc), there are other weeks it’s “slow” and I feel like I’m just sitting there. It used to be nonstop all the time when I was new, but the were a lot of unresolved problems or things the last guy didn’t know how to do. I probably couldn’t get away with 3x 8 hour days as stuff will always happen unexpectedly, but still. It would be less of a problem if I could go back to working remote at least partially. Going onsite everyday is also annoying AF.
Dang, yeah, that’s irritating. Would they at least allow you hybrid? I know someone who works remotely 2 days/wk which has been nice.
And then there is the rest of us fighting to add more hours to our day just to get through it to massively varied degrees as they are
Reducing your working hours would add so much valuable time to everyone’s lives. Of your workload is so great, time to hire additional help. Not your problem.
You recall when covid first happened and so many and remote? Productivity shot up 17%according to several articles. Less “wasted time” with ‘water cooler’ talk. People could get coffee at home faster, quieter environments to focus in, etc. Insurance rates went down bc far less on the road, oil went down since demand dropped. It was ironically positive. It was great!
But the commercial real estate problem began, and C suites started micro managing because they were told petiole will just slack off and all these made up problems were spread to get people back into the offices.
It’s bullshit to keep us working so long every day. If you’re still overwhelmed with your workload, your company clearly is understaffed. I’ve learned, “the only reward for working hard is more work” and if you’re currently just managing to get it done, it’s seen as no extra help needed. “You got this”… Start letting stuff fall behind or putting it off, because you’ve got other stuff you prioritize. Call off sick at an inconvenient time so upper management sees the loss when you’re out. It’ll start to send signals that they in fact need help!
I don’t work an office job. I work in operations. I can’t reduce my workload it is what it is by the nature of my job. I’ve had to cut staff continually since covid. I worked everyday during it and no one gives a shit unless you were a healthcare worker at that time.
