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New Law Cuts Workweek, Bans After-Hours Contact and Bans Pay Cuts
By a vote of 411 to 58, a country:
has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.
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The right to disconnect is not a new concept globally. France introduced the right in 2017, Portugal followed in 2021, and Ireland codified its version in 2023. What makes Mexico’s version significant is the scale of its application: a country of 130 million people, with a labor force of more than 60 million workers, has now enshrined in law a right that in Mexico’s own corporate culture has rarely existed even informally.
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The landmark Iceland trials, conducted between 2015 and 2019, found that reducing working hours from 40 to 35 or 36 per week with no reduction in pay resulted in the same or better productivity across a wide range of public sector workplaces, while significantly improving worker wellbeing, reducing sick days, and reducing burnout rates.
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The right to disconnect is not a new concept globally. France introduced the right in 2017, Portugal followed in 2021, and Ireland codified its version in 2023. What makes Mexico’s version significant is the scale of its application: a country of 130 million people, with a labor force of more than 60 million workers, has now enshrined in law a right that in Mexico’s own corporate culture has rarely existed even informally.
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The landmark Iceland trials, conducted between 2015 and 2019, found that reducing working hours from 40 to 35 or 36 per week with no reduction in pay resulted in the same or better productivity across a wide range of public sector workplaces, while significantly improving worker wellbeing, reducing sick days, and reducing burnout rates.
https://techfixated.com/mexico-cuts-workweek-bans-after-hours-contact-and-guarantees-no-worker-will-take-a-pay-cut-in-the-most-sweeping-labor-reform-in-a-generation/
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Whatever will they do without peons to lord over and degrade whenever they are having a bad day?
Won't someone think of the middle management with a complete lack of ethics or morals constantly being petty dictators solely because they have to justify that salary somehow?
This is an outrage!
(I shouldn't need it, but... 
)
Boeing had us working 12 hour days 7 days a week for 3 months when our General Foreman announced
that we was getting less & less accomplished and cut the entire building back to a 40 hour work week.
And just like that we started getting more done every day. 
