What do companies as different as those in the metallurgical, maquila, electronics and automotive industries all have in common? To this day, at least four companies in those industries have been accused of labor violations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). At the signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement new labor obligations and their respective…
The evidentiary value that labor authorities grant to resignation letters within a labor litigation has changed. Previously, it was sufficient to prove that the signature on the resignation letter corresponded to the employee. If the employee denied it, an external expert in the field determined whether it corresponded to the employee or not. A positive result…
On June 3 2022, the First Chamber of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice issued a criteria through which it was concluded that, even though a previous, clear and informed consultation to indigenous communities procedure is not expressly provided in the Mining Law, the authorities are forced to conduct such consultation when the rights and interests…