Mexico City, like 11 entities in the country, will transition to the new labor model, but since it is one of the largest, a five-month delay is expected in its implementation process, while the Local Board of Conciliation and Arbitration (JLCA) and the CDMX experiences a new scheme to end the backlog of files.
In an interview with El Economista, the president of the JLCA-CDMX, Eleazar Rubio, recently appointed by the Head of Government, commented that he has a very clear goal, to move towards the new labor model, giving immediate results, to reduce the backlog of files that still exist.
“We arrived here with the firm objective of reducing the backlog, it is a backlog accumulated over decades and that has worsened with the Covid-19 health crisis and at the moment we have around 130,000 in process in the different procedural stages, and well that implies that we have to change things, we cannot continue in the same way”, he explained.
The point, he said, “is to end this backwardness, it is important because it is a historic struggle of the workers of the most unprotected classes; It is part of the social rights of the population, hence the reform in 2019 was aimed at changing the way of precisely dealing with this problem.”
They will analyze file by file
The starting point proposed by the president of the JLCA-CDMX, is to make an analysis of each of the files, which exceed 130,000 with all those who continue to enter, to give a forceful response and in a month reflect results on the lag .
He stressed that until the last day of April they will be able to receive complaints or lawsuits, “there is an approach that this term that we have until October can be extended, but right now formally it is until the last day of April. Until some legislative modifications are made; in a transitory article this term could be extended until the end of September, until then we will still receive matters to carry out those present”.
We arrived here with the firm objective of reducing the backlog, it is a backlog accumulated over decades and that has worsened with the Covid-19 health crisis and at the moment we have around 130,000 cases in process ”.
Eleazar Rubio, president of the JLCA of CDMX
During the annual exercise from November 2020 to October 2021, the CDMX JLCA issued 99,630 resolutions; 92,914 agreements and 5,490 awards. In addition, the agency’s Special Boards received 32,000 demands and almost 61,000 promotions, of which some 35,000 -58% of the total- reached an agreement.
However, he admitted that “there are human errors -in all this backlog- we need to know if we have those 130,000 or more files, and second in what procedural state they are, so that once we are in that review we can carry out with certainty a series of actions that allow us, apart from debugging it, to promote a new strategy to streamline the entire procedure in general terms”.
Even though the commitment is to give the first results 30 days after taking office, Rubio stressed that they will work for a projection “to know how long it will take us to resolve those 130,000 files, and face the closure of the meetings to make way for the new courts, and match the implementation of the reform with the calendar that exists at the federal level”.