All resources: Mexico

Protocol for occupational safety and health in the coffee value chain Emphasis on COVID-19 prevention and mitigation

This summary integrates the more generic measures of the protocols and guides, which target the var ious links of the coffee value chain in Honduras and Mexico, divided into seven main sections: (i) objectives; (ii) scope; (iii) implementation;...

Social Protection Spotlight

Extending social protection to the cultural and creative sector

Workers in the cultural and creative sector often lack effective access to social protection.

ILO working paper 28

Social Protection in the Cultural and Creative Sector - Country Practices and Innovations

WIND Training Manual: Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development

The WIND Training Manual is designed to help small-scale farmers and their families improve safety and health in their work and their daily lives. The uniqueness of the WIND approach is that it enables the voluntary improvement of working and living...

WIND Instructor's Manual Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development. Practical approaches for improving safety, health and working...

The WIND training programme has given farmers around the world an opportunity to improve their safety and health and has even been incorporated into national policies on OSH in many countries. This approach is especially suitable for training...

Promising practices for fair recruitment: Mexico - Fair recruitment practice by recruitment agency adapted to COVID-19

This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

Research Brief

Protecting the life and health of workers during the COVID 19 pandemic: Overview of national legislative and policy responses

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the cardinal importance of protecting health and safety in the workplace. ILO Member States are responding, through legislative and policy measures in the world of work, to the occupational health and safety...

ILO Voices | Forced labour

Labour, freedom and happiness: The great driving forces of antiquity

Rodrigo Mogrovejo works for the ILO in Mexico where he deals with contemporary labour standards. His hobby is the study of ancient history, where he sees great relevance to the issues he deals with daily at work.

Fair recruitment

Central American migrant women in Mexico: Informality in recruitment and employment

This brief summarizes the current state of recruitment practices for Central American migrant women, focusing on four key sectors including agriculture, domestic work, sex work and street vending, and focuses on migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and...

Fair recruitment

Recruitment of Guatemalan migrant workers

This video highlights the context and trends of labour migration in the Guatemala to Mexico corridor, with a focus on preventing and reducing unscrupulous practices during recruitment.

COVID-19 Guidance for occupational safety and health for employers and domestic workers

This guide, published with the support of the United Nations Joint Fund for Sustainable Development Goals, aims to guide domestic workers and those who employ them on preventive measures against the spread of COVID-19 and other risks. associated...

Domestic Workers Convention

Ratification by Mexico of Convention No. 189 on Domestic Workers

Mexico is committed to promoting decent work for domestic workers. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security and the Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Mexican Foreign Ministry participated in a virtual ceremony.

Improving occupational safety and health in the global coffee supply chain from Mexico: Drivers and constraints.

In Mexico, in the framework of a project on the coffee value chain financed by the VZF with funding from the European Commission, a study was conducted to identify the drivers and constraints relating to the improvement of OSH across that value...

Fifteen new trainers on My.Coop were trained and 36 coffee cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico benefited from My.Coop training

A series of My.Coop training workshops were carried out to support the economic recovery of the earthquake-affected communities in the State of Chiapas.

Research Department Working Paper n°53

Gender inequality and old-age income security: The case of Mexico

Reflections on work. Perspectives from the Southern Cone of Latin America on the occasion of the ILO Centenary

The articles in this book explore many of the ILO’s core topics and how they have evolved over time. Some topics have persisted as concerns since the time of the ILO’s creation, whereas others – like just transition to environmental sustainability –...

Women in Business and Management

Sharp rise in women-owned businesses in Central America

Case studies from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico (Chihuahua) and Panama show that women’s success as business owners and employers can be influenced by the size of their enterprise, the economic sectors in which they operate, their education and...

Regional or country brief

Women in Business in Central America

Case studies from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico (Chihuahua) and Panama show that women’s success as business owners and employers can be influenced by the size of their enterprise, the economic sectors in which they operate, their education and...

Report

Executive Summary - A qualitative study on stigma and discrimination experienced by indigenous peoples living with HIV or having TB at work

Indigenous peoples living with HIV or having TB face double discrimination. Being an LGBT indigenous person adds another layer to this. Barriers to accessing health services, denial of the right to work and discrimination in employment settings are...

video

SIYB programme in Chihuahua

The SIYB Programme was implemented in the state of Chihuahua in 2016. 20 Trainers from different local authorities, Academy and business development providers were trained in GYB, SYB and IYB modules. As a result, many men and women facing...