By: José Díaz y Eumir Quintero The Ministry of Labor and Social Security published on April 23, 2021 in the Federal Official Gazette a decree through which various provisions of the Federal Labor Law, as well as other laws, are amended, added and repealed (Social Security Law, Infonavit Law, Income Tax Read more…
Lately, the issue of marijuana use is being discussed more than ever, and last week the Senate approved an opinion regarding this issue, but does this mean that marijuana is legal in Mexico? The answer is “NO”. So what did the Senate approve? The majority of the Senate approved on Read more…
On December 23, 2021, the resolution issued by the National Minimum Wages Commission (CONASAMI) was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, where the general and professional minimum wages that will govern our nation as of January 1st 2021 were set. That is why we have given ourselves the Read more…
By: José Díaz and Eumir Quintero On May 29, 2020 it was published on the Federal Official Gazette (DOF) a Decree issued by the Ministry of Health, in which the Specific Technical Guidelines for the Reopening of economic activities were established, coming into force the very same day of the Read more…
By: José Díaz and Eumir Quintero Health Safety Guidelines for a New Labor Environment By decrees issued on May 14th and 15th of 2020, the Ministry of Health published on the Federal Official Gazette the strategy to resume social, educational and economic activities. The strategy contains the Health Safety Technical Read more…
By: José Díaz, Daniel Gutiérrez and Eumir Quintero March 31st 2020 Addenda (Federal Government’s clarification) to the Second Decree declaring emergency measures for the COVID-19 pandemic. It encourages the immediate suspension of non-essential activities between March 30th and April 30th 2020, in order to mitigate the dispersion and transmission of Read more…
By: Daniel Gutiérrez 1. What is the Mexican “Consejo de Salubridad General” (Health General Council, “CSG”) in view of the COVID-19 pandemic? The CSG Council is a special purpose (ad hoc) Constitutional Council that was established this March 24, 2020, to confront the SARS-Co-V2 (COVID-19) epidemic, and it is based Read more…
By: José Díaz & Eumir Quintero What activities must the company carry out to face the Health Contingency? In the midst of this pandemic by COVID-19, all sectors of society have been urged to adopt preventive and isolation measures to prevent further spread. In this sense, the Mexican Ministry of Read more…
By: José Díaz and Eumir Quintero 1. Falls short of the Full-Blown General Health Contingency with work suspension outlined in Article 73 section XVI, subsections 2a., and 3a., of the Mexican Constitution, and it fulfills the specific case of suspension in accordance to Article 427, section VII of the Federal Read more…
By: José Díaz and Eumir Quintero UPDATE (March 25th, 2020): Mexican authorities have oficially declared Phase 2 of Contingency. As of the date of publication of this article, there are already 203 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (also known as Coronavirus) in Mexico. On March 18, the first case of death Read more…