All resources: Mexico

ILO achieved the inclusion of Standard Clauses against Child Labor in five collective agreements

The Migrant Worker Resource Centre in Tijuana, Mexico: Supporting access to justice and labour migration governance

It presents the context in which the Tijuana Migrant Worker Resource Centre was created, the services it offers, as well as the steps needed to continue its implementation and reach a greater number of beneficiaries in the Mexico-Central America...

ILO participates in the Framework Conference of the Ibero-American Network for the Promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)

This network, driven by Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain and Portugal, aims to consolidate a regional group that promotes the SSE.

Volume 2 – The potential of trade and investment policies to address labour market issues in supply chains

Chapter 4. Labour reforms in Mexico and international trade negotiations: From the North American Free Trade Agreement to the United...

This chapter examines the labour dimension of the United States–Canada–Mexico Agreement (USMCA) and its role in the important changes that Mexico’s labour market institutions have undergone in recent years. The authors traces how the dynamics...

Volume 2 – The potential of trade and investment policies to address labour market issues in supply chains

Chapter 4. Labour reforms in Mexico and international trade negotiations: From the North American Free Trade Agreement to the United...

This chapter examines the labour dimension of the United States–Canada–Mexico Agreement (USMCA) and its role in the important changes that Mexico’s labour market institutions have undergone in recent years. The authors traces how the dynamics...

First steps are taken towards the creation of a Mesoamerican corridor of Migrant Workers' Resource Centers (MWRC).

ILO and SUCOMM open a second Migrant Workers' Resource Center in Mexico

The centres are based on the International Labour Organization´s (ILO) MWRC model that has been successfully implemented in other countries, especially in the Asian region.

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 28): Towards the creation of better jobs in the post-pandemic era

This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), emphasizes that three years...

Digitalization of Business Organizations

Mexico and CCIJ: An integral digital transformation

This case study, prepared by the ILO Bureau for Employers' Activities (ACT/EMP), aims to assist Latin American Employer and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOs) in their journey towards digitalisation, based on information and responses...

Research Paper No.16

Automation and its employment impacts: Case studies in Mexico’s apparel and footwear sectors

This paper is part of a research project on how processes of technological upgrading, particularly automation, interact with local social structures and institutional systems in the apparel and footwear industries to impact women’s and men’s...

Forced Labour

Mexico renews commitment against forced labour

With the ratification of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, Mexico becomes the 60th country in the world to ratify this important instrument.

Comparative analysis of the standards and procedures on recruitment and placement of foreign temporary workers: Canada, El Salvador, the...

This study compiles, analyses and synthesizes the different national and international regulations and procedures that countries apply to the recruitment and placement of temporary foreign temporary workers; and it also presents lessons learned and...

The Resource Centre for Migrant Workers in Tijuana, Mexico

Systematization of the experience of the RCMW, recommendations to improve their services and to replicate the model in Mexico and Central American countries.

Fair recruitment in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico: Assessing progress and addressing gaps

Analysis of progress and gaps in the regulatory framework, policies and enforcement on fair recruitment in the region and in each country, with recommendations to address regional and national challenges. The document also compiles cases, good...

Fair recruitment in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico: Assessing progress and addressing gaps

Analysis of progress and gaps in the regulatory framework, policies and enforcement on fair recruitment in the region and in each country, with recommendations to address regional and national challenges. The document also compiles cases, good...

Research Paper No.15

The automotive sector in Mexico: The impact of automation and digitalization on employment

This paper discusses the implementation of automation and digitalization processes in two automotive manufacturing plants in Mexico and analyses their effects on employment, including gender dimensions, and labour processes. A qualitative...

Participation and employment in seven developing economies: An age-period-cohort analysis

This paper aims at comparing various characteristics of labour force participation and employment, either formal or informal, for both men and women in several emerging or developing economies of different regions using pseudo panels and the...

Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 27): Labour productivity in Latin America

This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the...

Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros

Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks...

Social Finance Brief: Insurance for MSMEs in Mexico

The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has been collaborating with the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions to build inclusive insurance markets for excluded persons and for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This...

Violence and harassment

Mexico ratifies ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment

Mexico is the 19th country to ratify ILO Convention No. 190, the 7th in the Latin American and Caribbean region.