The Tec, the company that laid off the most personnel in December, reveals AMLO

Néstor Jiménez and Roberto Garduño

La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, January 6, 2022, p. 9

Tecnológico de Monterrey tops the list of companies or institutions that laid off staff last December. In the country they added 312,902 during that month, reported yesterday President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who explained that it is an informal dismissal, not a real one, just to not pay their benefits.

The first place this December, in this dismissal mechanism, was held by Tecnológico de Monterrey. And why do I say it? Because I want it to be debated and I am sure that the Board of Trustees of Tecnológico de Monterrey will attend to this matter so that their teachers, so that their workers are not fired and then rehiredhe said in his morning press conference.

He explained that those who made the largest number of cuts are mainly companies in the service and educational sector, with teachers who are on temporary contracts, who are fired and then rehired the following month.

Even when the law was modified and the outsourcing created by the neoliberals is being fought, we still had problems in December, we lost more than 300 thousand jobs, he exposed.

With the help of a projected graph, it showed that before the pandemic there were 20 million 613 thousand formal jobs registered with the Mexican Institute of Social Security, and after several fluctuations during the health emergency, in October a record of 20 million 933 thousand was reached. 55, and then drop in December to 20 million 620 thousand 148 formal jobs.

Our consolation is that it was above how it was before the pandemic, but this is going to go up. What happened here ?, because contracts were canceled to not pay benefits. So, we are talking with those who put this system into practice so that they hire their workers with benefitshe added.

The President reported that the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, tested negative for covid-19. He only has a flu, a common cold, after he revealed on Tuesday that he was in recovery. Regarding the pandemic, he reiterated that the new variant is affecting a lot, but fortunately it is not serious, there are no hospitalizations and, most important of all, there are no deaths. Anyway, you have to take more care, at the same time that he recalled that, due to the season, the temperature drops, which leads to respiratory diseases.