Abogados internacionales piden a SCJN rechazar amparos contra Reforma Laboral

En la víspera de la entrada en vigor del Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC), abogados internacionales pidieron a la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) …

June 2020: ILAW Amicus Brief Concerning the Amparos Against Mexican Labor Law Reforms

ILAW Press Release Jun 23 2020 EN y ES (English and Spanish) ILAW Memorial Amicus Reforma Laboral ES FINAL 2020 06 22 (Spanish version) ILAW Memorial Amicus Labor Reform EN …

U.S. unions urge Mexico to defend workers’ rights after labor advocate’s arrest

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Pressure is growing for Mexican authorities to release prominent labor lawyer Susana Prieto, arrested a week ago at a protest, with two U.S. unions concerned about …

Mexican state arrests border labor lawyer Susana Prieto

Border state authorities have arrested a crusading labor lawyer who led a wave of 2019 walkouts for higher wages at border assembly plants known as maquiladoras. Detectives arrested Susana Prieto …

Empleadas domésticas sin medios para defender sus derechos laborales; carecen de contrato

“La falta de un contrato de trabajo, en el que además se garantice la seguridad social, ha provocado que las trabajadoras del hogar tengan pocas herramientas para defender sus derechos …

Covid-19 and Labour Law. A Global Review

“This special issue of the Italian Labour Law e-Journal intends to provide a systematic and informative overview on the measures set out by lawmakers and/or social partners in a number …

ABA: Multi-Country Snapshot of COVID-19 Related Legal Changes

This contains a series of short articles describing how several countries from throughout the world are using workplace laws to combat the spread of COVID-19 and to mitigate its effects …

Labor unions win, drug companies lose in new trade deal

The big winners and losers from the Trump administration’s deal with Democrats on its NAFTA replacement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, are not necessarily the traditional ones. Pharmaceutical companies, which usually see …

New NAFTA’s Labor Terms Sway AFL-CIO, But Not All Unions on Board

The nation’s largest union umbrella organization is now supporting the new North American trade pact based on recent revisions to labor terms that not all unions are immediately ready to …

AMLO manda a Senado convenio para derechos de trabajadoras domésticas

Ocho años después de suscrito, el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador remitió al Senado para su ratificación el Convenio 189 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), sobre el reconocimiento a derechos …