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This Wednesday, July 22, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared with the leader of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), Carlos Salazar Lomeli, to present a reform initiative in favor of the workers of Mexico.
A project that, if approved next September, would change the pension system in the country, since its main objective is to reduce the contribution time to 15 years in addition to increasing the pension of the average worker by 40% in a period of eight years. .
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that if the current reform is not corrected, when workers retire they will receive less than half their salary and this would worsen over time.
“We would not suffer much from this bad Chile Mobile Number List reform, but in the future there would be a crisis and those who would suffer the most would be the active workers. "The possibility of a fair, dignified retirement will be canceled."
In this regard, Salazar Lomelí considered this a historical fact, “thinking about Mexico is thinking about its workers, thinking about its people and doing so through actions like the one announced today is truly transcendent, we are going to touch the lives of more than 20 millions of Mexicans.”
He indicated that this is an example of the “social dimension of the Mexican business community” and thus recognizes the situation of the labor market where a worker “constantly crosses from formality to informality during the years of life and work,” a gap that is aims to decrease with this incentive.
During the morning, businessmen and federal authorities agreed on the importance of a fair and dignified retirement for workers, where their added value is recognized and where, together, the well-being of the country is thought of.
In this sense, it was detailed that the employer contribution for pensions would go from 5.15 to 13.87% thanks to the support of the private sector, since that of the workers would not increase and that of the State would only complete what is necessary for those who receive a salary lower than the 5 thousand pesos monthly.
For his part, Carlos Aceves del Olmo, general secretary of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), highlighted that many labor issues still need to be put on the table but “let's go one by one.”
“From here I tell the workers of Mexico that we put our soul, life and heart into this discussion. The relationship between businessmen and workers is not easy, but it is not impossible either and today we are showing it, we can do things and with the endorsement of the government of the Republic, let's see who stops us,” she declared.
He added that the issue of pensions is very important and they are not going to wait another 23 years for there to be changes again "if we talk about government, capital and labor, we will always reach agreements."
Mario Delgado Carrillo, president of the Political Coordination Board of the Chamber of Deputies, recalled that during the 1997 reform, currently in force, they talked about the benefit to the financial system, about the creation of employment, but they did not talk about the worker. .
“The center of the reform was not the worker and the scheme was to leave the worker in the lurch, at the expense of the market, to work all his life to see if with his efforts he could have a decent pension in an economy with low wages and high informality.