While 11 entities in the country are fine-tuning the details to fully enter a new labor system, with new facilities and personnel focused on conciliation, the National Association of Democratic Lawyers sees with concern that a massive dismissal has been generated in the Local Conciliation Board of Mexico City “without the slightest care” and compliance with the new labor regulations.
In a letter signed by the president of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (ADD), Francisco Tomás Ramírez Méndez, addressed to the owner of the Local Board of Mexico CityEleazar Rubio Aldarán, expressed that “it surprises and concerns the professional environment that the Local Board has carried out unjustified untimely dismissals of which 50 employees with jurisdictional functions and some with appointments under the professional service career law board have been subjected under the pretext of an alleged lack of budget.
He also added that it is of the utmost seriousness that “in the body in charge of imparting labor justice and conciliating labor conflicts in Mexico City, it incurs abuses against its own legal staff at the same time that it proceeds to hire a number similar of employees without experience of law studies”.
Likewise, Ramírez Méndez affirmed that “the dismantling of the Local Board is incongruous when it has the obligation to conclude the processing and possible execution of more than 130,000 lawsuits that are in charge of it, which is why the dismissal of nine experienced conciliation officials supposes the abandonment of that important function in the aforementioned trial procedures.”
The forthcoming opening of new labor courts and the Conciliation Center “They should not be used as a pretext to deprive the employees of the local board of their most basic rights or to condemn the users of the board to wait 10 or more years for their trials to conclude,” said Ramírez Méndez.
For this reason, they demanded that “the legal status of the human rights of those affected be respected, carefully reviewing the measures adopted by the labor authority to the detriment of its professional staff. Consequently, the measures adopted must be nullified immediately and the dismissed lawyers must be immediately reinstated.”
They also requested a hearing to discuss and help to improve the conditions that allow resolving ordinary labor issues pending to date, as well as the serious lags that exist in the institution.
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