Three years after the labor reform, specialists present a new proposal to modify, once again, the Federal Labor Law and close the “gaps” that prevent progress in the democratization of the world of work.
These are five fundamental changes, in which “flaws” have been detected and that it is essential that they be addressed, says the spokesman for the Labor ObservatoryAlfonso Bouzasz, who took the proposal worked on by various organizations, including the Network of Trade Union Women, to the Labor Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
The first modification is to “enrich, said Bouzas, the powers of the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration (CFCRL), because in the law there is currently a “blurred attribution for the Center; but, due to the work it performs, registration of contracts and other documents and labor conciliation, it must have clear powers, and currently in the Law they are lukewarm”.
The foregoing was identified in processes such as the General Motors where complaints arrived and there was no clear attribution of the Center, “we see that an authority as important as the Center cannot have limited powers; when there is a complaint or there is a disagreement, it must act ex officio; That is one of the important issues.”
As a second topic they add subcontracting, which although it was approved unanimously, “has inaccuracies and as all laws are perfectible, particularly subcontracting, we try to give it a clearer order, currently it has confusing scenarios, it is not known when the final beneficiary responds or when the intermediary, that is the reason why the subject is taken up again.
Currently the workers vote to legitimize their contract, elect a directive or the agreement on salary and contract review; but it is also intended to include the free, secret and direct vote in the agreements and agreements, and even the internal regulations, established by the union with the company.
“It is not in all cases, but in oil tankers there are agreements of greater weight and importance than the contract and therefore it had to be included in the Law, currently it only says that contracts, and so that it is not going to be lame, it must include the vote on conventions and agreements”, explained Bouzas.
One more aspect is that there are sanctions for employers who violate democracy and freedom of association, because it has been identified that in many cases they seek a way to overturn the law; and lastly, the issue of the guarantee of proportional representation was missing, including that if there are more men or women to occupy union positions, there must be at least one that balances the Committees.
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In this regard, deputy Tereso Medina, who is also a union leader of the CTMstated that without a doubt the labor reform, “is not bad, it is a great labor reform, but I have always thought that it can be perfected.”
He added that an issue to review “is the interference of foreign organizations, it would be very important to analyze it because we would be attacking the autonomy of the unions internally, we have the capacity and the talent to regulate that interference by foreign organizations or agencies, we are not in an absolute rejection, it is regular for us to make those agreements of unions or confederations, as well as the USMCA joined with commercial companies between Mexico, the United States and Canada, it would be a good idea for Mexico to exchange ideas, ways of thinking, in order to define this great nation project that challenges us all”.
Deputy Susana Prieto, secretary of the Labor Commission, highlighted the willingness of legislators to modify the Federal Labor Law so that it is functional and applicable and “stops being a dead letter.”
He considered that what was previously reformed “is incomplete” and “does not work, since we still do not advance in terms of collective rights and gender parity.”
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