Mexico City – Walmart of Mexico (Walmex*), a chain of self -service stores, The 40 -hour work week is testing In a hundred units in order to prepare for the possible approval of a reform that reduces the work day.
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The company, one of Mexico’s biggest private employers, began a pilot in the first quarter in stores in different formats to evaluate aspects such as OPERATIVE OPTIMIZATION, ECONOMIC VIABILITY, LEGAL AND SOCIAL ADAPTATIONSaid the company’s director of Operations, Raúl Quintana, on the company’s results website on Tuesday.
“We are already operating 100 stores with a 40 -hour workday and continue to grow, they continue in operations, and They are helping us understand the circle of productivity that we need to have to operate our 3,000 stores that way”, Commented the Walmex CEO, Ignacio Caride, Wednesday during a videoconference with analysts.
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Caride said that a great finding of the test is that there are processes that currently perform in the stores they need to stop doing, So they are working to understand the impact of this and how they can compensate for technology or eliminate the process.
The manager added that if the reform is approved, the implementation will be graduatedL, which will give them time to continue adapting.
Paulo García, Walmex Finance Director, said it is uncertain if the reform will be supported in six months or more than a year, but hoped that it will happen because President Claudia Sheinbaum committed to it.
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The president included the gradual establishment of the 40 -hour work week, from the current 48 hours, as one of her 100 government commitments And he has said that his administration will seek a scheme agreed with employers to carry it out, although there is still no scheduled date for the approval of the reform.
This May 1, the Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños, announced before union leaders, that the Sheinbaum government that will gradually reduce the work week to spend 48 hours in force in the Federal Labor Law (LFT) until it reaches 40 hours per week at the latest in January 2030.
Previously, Legislators of Morena and Citizen Movement presented initiatives to reduce the working day during the last six -year term, headed by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but the proposals did not advance.
