“Mexico It was one of them country with more time poor workers”. This is what he stated Mario Lopez Rolandandirector Center for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) during his participation in fourth forum of Open Parliament to analyze reduction in working hours.

Keep in mind that update intend to switched from 48 to 40 hours of work per week. It is a total of a little over 8 hourswhich will be translated as additional rest day.

The Director also said the same thing OECD shows that the initiative This is a central issue for this country. He even pointed out that there were “significant delays” yours faithfully other countries that are members of the organization. “Mexico is the OECD country with the worst work-life balance“, he assured.

Mexico, the country with the lowest salaries in the OECD

Current existing 38 OECD member countries worldwide. Among them are: Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, England and the United States.

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In that context, Mexico is one of the countries where workers have less time to spend on recreation and care work.. This is without taking transfer time into account. López Roldán emphasized that The OECD average working time is 37 hours.

As if that wasn’t enough, it is working hours do not match income. Mexico has average lowest salary among 38 countries who formed the organization.

Furthermore, the OECD director stated that effects of long working hours own impact on workers’ physical and mental health. He pointed that out increase He emphasize and it work accidentapart from giving rise to absenteeism.

For this reason, López Roldán emphasized it Reform “must be a process and not an event”. In other words, the government must strive to be gradual and inclusive. Apart from that, the government must also have steps to mitigate possible negative impacts on business owners.

Finally, the OECD director assured that Reduction of working days is central both for him economic growth As for him social. He said he was great benefit in terms of productivity, competitiveness, health, gap reduction And general welfare.