Overview

• Senator Cynthia López Castro presented an initiative to amend Article 285 of the Federal Labor Law to legally recognize catalog sellers and grant them social security.
• The plan would require companies that sell by catalog, such as Tupperware, Avon and Mary Kay, to register their sellers with IMSS for medical care, pensions and other benefits.
• The Senate has turned the initiative to committees for analysis, with subsequent steps including a committee report, a Pleno vote and consideration in the Chamber of Deputies.
• Data cited in the debate indicate about 402,000 people work in catalog sales, roughly 96.8% are women with an average age near 47–50, and many earn below the minimum wage.
• Reporting notes the activity supports over three million families nationwide, with large concentrations in Estado de México, Mexico City and Veracruz, building on June’s reform for delivery‑app workers.