All resources: Mexico

Information notes: Technology and formalization

The collection of “information notes” on policies and programmes identified as innovative national practices of digital technologies to promote aspects of formalization were gathered for an ILO South-South Knowledge Sharing Forum (virtual) on What...

CROC and ILO formally open a Resource Center for Migrant Workers in Tijuana, Baja California

ILO in action

Improve the lives of labour migrants in Central America

Labour Migration Specialist, Noortje Denkers describes the ILO's work on labour migration across Central America, including the development of public policy and the promotion of employment for labour migrants and refugees.

Special edition podcast: Ending forced labour and child labour in Mexico

This podcast features interviews with four expert speakers from businesses and employer and business membership organizations who all have first-hand experience in tackling forced labour and child labour.

ILO Voices | Occupational safety and health

Good coffee, safe lives

Briseida Venegas Ramos is president of a female-led coffee cooperative in Veracruz, Mexico. She teaches farmers how to prevent accidents while working.

ILO in action

We promote responsible business conduct in Latin America and the Carribean

ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Olga Orozco, speaks from Peru about the Responsible Business Conduct project in Latin America and the Caribbean (RBCLAC), which aims to promote smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the EU and in Latin America and...

Labour Overview series for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021

2021 Labour Overview, Latin America and the Caribbean - Executive Summary

The 2021 Employment Outlook describes a mixed bag scenario for employment and suggests that pre-pandemic levels will be reached by 2023 or even 2024.

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Plenary Session 1: Social and Solidarity Economy: an overview, values and principles

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Plenary Session 5: The importance of statistical instruments in measuring the SSE

Mexico

Profile of women coffee producers in Mexico. Case study of their occupational health and safety conditions

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in the framework of the Vision Zero Fund and in collaboration with IWCA, conducted this study to generate a profile of women coffee workers and producers in Mexico in relation to their socio-demographic...

Productivity - Mexico

Productivity enhancement and sustainable employment in Mexico

This evidence-based study seeks to identify key constraints to productivity growth, enterprise development, and sustainable employment hubs in an emerging-market economy, Mexico, stocked in a middle-income trap, facing regional and sectoral...

Trade and decent work: Handbook of assessment methodologies

This Handbook presents and critically evaluates the methodologies used to assess the impact of trade on various areas of decent work. To that end, it traces the evolution of theories and methodological approaches ranging from the macro (country),...

Trade and decent work: Indicator guide

The purpose of the present Guide is to provide analytical tools, which can support further research on trade and decent work. It offers a broad set of labour market indicators for trade policy assessment that can be used in studies on the nexus...

Emerging Insight: Exploring digital solutions in Mexico

Improving occupational safety and health in global supply chains with the Vision Zero Fund

DG INTPA and the ILO Vision Zero Fund (VZF) held an INFOPOINT virtual conference on “Improving occupational safety and health in global supply chains with the Vision Zero Fund” on 8 September 2021.

Briefing note of the end of the mission

Conclusion of ILO observation mission in Silao, Guanajuato

In response to a request from the government of Mexico the ILO carried out an observation mission of the process of the legitimization of the Collective Bargaining Agreement at the General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico.

Workers' rights

ILO Observation Mission Announcement in Mexico

Collective Bargaining Agreement Vote – GM plant, Silao, Guanajuato.

ILO Working paper 37

Trade and Decent Work: Adequate Earnings in the Mexican Manufacturing Industries

This paper analyses the impact of non-preferential trade liberalization and exposure to globalization on “adequate earnings” in Mexico between 2003 and 2020, using data from the national labour force and manufacturing industries surveys. Trade...

ILO Working paper 36

Trade agreements and decent work in Mexico: the case of the automotive and textile industries

The study applies the framework of decent work indicators developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), in combination with input–output analysis, to explore selected links between international trade and certain indicators of decent...

ILO COOP participates in the Strategic Workshop “Toward an action plan to eliminate child labour and to promote decent work in solid waste...

Head of ILO’s COOP Unit highlighted the role that cooperatives play for informal waste-pickers to access social protection, generate negotiation power with public and private stakeholders and to formalize their work.