The Mexican Institute of Public Accountants (IMCP) highlighted that the proposal of reform the Federal Labor Law to guarantee social security for drivers and platform delivery workers digital is innovative and brave, although its implementation will face challenges.
He warned that the main challenge will be the collection of fees, as well as preventing this reform from becoming an opportunity for aggressive practices.
“It is a good idea because we will never be against fundamental labor rights that are not negotiable.”the world is changing with technology and its implications,” said the vice president of the Institute, Rolando Silva. Hence, the world of work has to adapt in that sense, he considered, by recognizing the forms of work.
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What is intermittent membership?
Rolando Silva explained thatafter its approval in Congress, secondary rules would be missing to see the fine points of the reform in which an instruction will be given to the IMSS to have this protection.
It would work in some way linked to cell phones, which is how the service is generated, he intuited.
“You can be available for a while or all day or at no time; when you turn on your device, if a service arises, and you agree to take it, at that moment coverage would be activated at least for work risk insurance. Since starts until the delivery ends would be the insurance,” he explained.
But only for cases where the income is not greater than a minimum wage, which is estimated to be 157 thousand who reach that threshold.
The coverage would be complete, that is, health, disability and retirement insurance, there is even talk of access to Infonavit credits.
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“We would hope to see that it is an affiliation that is activated and deactivated, and can be compared with a kind of logs to make a calculation to enhance the coverage of the payments that have to be made for that concept,” he explained.
He said that it has to be reviewed to see if it has coverage, which is why he expressed that it is quite an interesting challenge, but it is assumed that this way it could work.
It solves several things, but the most important is the work risk for those who have complementary income and suffer an accident without access to medical services.he stressed.
He mentioned that it seems that there is no talk of dismissal of the workers, but rather of giving advance notice to the driver or delivery person of the platform, who will be disconnected.
How would it work?
Víctor Manuel Cámara pointed out that Since it is still a proposal, there are still many questions that will be seen along the way or at the end with the secondary rules for its implementation.
For example, he pointed out that there are many independent workers, housewives who are drivers of these digital platforms who have an additional income.
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By incorporating them with a different and innovative regime, it generates such important rights as it would be necessary to see what happens with justified or unjustified dismissals, whether they should be compensated, or whether they should be given a distribution of profits.
That is, consider whether differences will be made between a full-time employee or whether they will remain independent, in terms of additional benefits to the salary such as access to the sports facilities that some companies have.
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