{"id":9602,"date":"2025-12-23T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/?p=9602"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:35:48","slug":"reform-for-the-implementation-of-a-40-hour-work-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/reform-for-the-implementation-of-a-40-hour-work-week\/","title":{"rendered":"REFORM FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A 40-HOUR WORK WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Labor Organization (ILO) states that the main benefits of reducing working hours are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduction of fatigue and workplace accidents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvement in occupational health and safety.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greater balance between the personal, family, and work life of workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">_________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Working Time and Benefited Population<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reduction of the working week to 40 hours would benefit:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>13.4 million workers<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>Key Modifications<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>40-hour work week is established at the const<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itutional level to guarantee this right to workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Under no circumstances does the reduction imply a decrease in wages, salaries, or benefits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time, <\/span><b>overtime work by minors is prohibited<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reduction in working hours will be implemented gradually, at a rate of two hours per year, until reaching 40 hours in 2030.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">_________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Graduality<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Constitution establishes a reduction of two hours per year in the standard working day, which will take effect on January 1st of each year, as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><b>YEAR<\/b><\/th>\n<th><b>WORK WEEK (HOURS)<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2026<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entry into force and transition period<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2027<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">46<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2028<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">44<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2029<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">42<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2030<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Electronic Record<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to monitor compliance with the new 40-hour work week in the workplace, employers are now required to keep electronic records of working hours.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare will issue the provisions governing this record.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Next steps:<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion and approval in the Congress of the Union.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entry into force of the reform on May 1, 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first 2-hour reduction to the working day takes effect on January 1, 2027<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive specialized advice on the impact of this reform and learn how to prepare for the changes it will bring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/?page_id=4917\"><b>CONTACT US<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Labor Organization (ILO) states that the main benefits of reducing working hours are: Reduction of fatigue and workplace accidents. Improvement in occupational health and safety. Greater balance between the personal, family, and work life of workers. _________________________________________________________________________ Working Time and Benefited Population The reduction of the working week to 40 hours would benefit: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oma.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}