From the first minute of this Wednesday, January 1, 2025, the 12 percent increase in the minimum wage came into effect. In this way, salaries for the General Minimum Wage Zone they go from $248.93 pesos to $278.80 pesos daily and for the Free Zone of the Northern Border (comprising 45 municipalities within the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas) go from $374.89 pesos to $419.88 pesos daily.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) highlighted that this increase, agreed unanimously between the representations of workers, the private sector and the government, belonging to the National Minimum Wages Commission (Conasami), It will benefit 8.5 million workers throughout the country.
He stressed that this salary adjustment is part of commitment 56 of the president Claudia Sheinbaumwhat are you looking for move towards the objective that these progressive increases cover 2.5 basic baskets at the end of this six-year term.
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The federal agency explained that the minimum professional salaries, which They contemplate 61 professions, trades and special jobs, They also experience a 12 percent increase in the cost of their services provided per day of work, which aims to improve working conditions, as well as reduce the gender pay gap.
“This increase is added to what was done by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where the salary increase was always maintained above inflation, thereby achieving a recovery of 135 percent of his purchasing power since 2018, in addition to breaking myths neoliberals such as that its increase has an impact on inflation, since it has been shown that this does not happen”he stressed.
He highlighted that another positive element of this policy of increasing minimum wages is that from 2019 to 2024 the gender wage gap was reduced by 29 percent at the municipal level. while the impact is greater in those municipalities where the poorest women reside, where the gender gap was reduced by 66 percent.
“With these increases, as well as with labor reform, the elimination of abusive subcontracting and welfare programs such as Youth Building the Future, formal employment becomes more attractive than informal employment and allows greater growth in sources of employment. work with social securitypointed out the Ministry of Labor.
With information from SUN.
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