Jared Laureles and Jessica Xantomila
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, November 28, 2024, p. 16
Today the Council of Representatives of the National Minimum Wage Commission (Conasami) will be held in permanent session with the aim of meeting at any time to agree on the increase in the minimum wage for 2025.
In the session, the proposals of the tripartite council – the representation of workers, employers and the government – will be discussed, seeking to unanimously specify a new increase, according to sources consulted.
The work will be headed by Luis Felipe Munguía, president of Conasami, and will have a starting point in the proposals of the sectors that make up it.
The labor sector demanded an increase of 20 percent, while the employers proposed 12 percent.
José Luis Carazo, spokesperson for the labor sector before Conasami, pointed out that this increase was requested for both the general and professional minimums, in order to reduce the gap with respect to the 1976 salary, whose updated value he estimated at 340 pesos.
He also demanded the disappearance of the independent recovery amount (MIR), because it was already They compacted salaries a lot
of the tabulators that there will come a time when all workers will earn minimum wage
regardless of seniority, knowledge, performance, experience or skills.
In a document delivered to Conasami, he indicated that in proportion to the increases in the minimum wage, these have exceeded the increase in contractual salaries by three times. which poses a risk to the economic growth of workers and their families
.
Regarding the Coparmex proposal, 12 percent, Lorenzo Roel, employer spokesperson, said that there are no figures yet
there will be dialogue in order to achieve a collegiate decision between the organizations
.
The policy of recovering minimum wages since the last administration has achieved that in 2019, the increase was set at 16.2 percent; 2020, 20 percent; 2021, 15 percent; in 2022, 22 percent; and in 2023 and 2024, 20 percent.
