Overview
- Mexico’s government, employers and unions agreed to cut the workweek from 48 to 40 hours between 2027 and 2030, reducing two hours per year from 2027 onward.
- Worker collectives warn the Mexican plan could preserve six-day schedules and irregular shifts if distribution rules are not set, and they allege draft language would weaken overtime protections.
- Activists in Mexico argue changes could enable longer shifts and postpone triple-pay overtime thresholds, while business groups back gradual implementation, hourly pay options and tax relief.
- Argentina’s Milei government sent a labor bill to Congress to allow up to 12-hour days, create a bank of hours, enable flexible scheduling, and permit wages in pesos, foreign currency or in kind.
- The Argentine proposal also ends ultraactividad, creates an independent contractor category for platform couriers, revises severance rules and adds minimum-service requirements that unions and labor lawyers call unconstitutional as the bill seeks Senate approval.