Uber is considering leaving Mexico or at least some cities due to the new reform to the Federal Labor Law that proposes “extending social security to drivers and delivery people,” says Mauricio Flores in his column in La Razón.
Flores indicates that the presidential reform of the Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños, indicates that delivery workers have “the right to have health services, unemployment, savings and access to housing credit.” Which would leave Uber out of the operational and financial balance if it were applied.
According to Flores, there is concern about the initiative due to the dissociation of labor benefits in each of the digital platforms for which a delivery person and/or driver worked or if it will be only one employer that will take charge of the total labor cost “which in an aggregate manner can add up to 35% above the equivalent income of one or more minimum wages, according to the metric of the flexible talent firm on demand Seeds, which is run by Martin Calzetti,” analyzes Flores.
In September, Uber representatives held a protest at the Cancun airport because the National Guard was harassing them and sanctioning them with excessive fines. However, they trusted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), before the end of his term, would keep his promise to allow them to operate freely. (Cancún: Uber trusts that AMLO will allow them to operate freely).
“To begin with, the government should not be fining us, but they are doing so, that is wrong,” said Águeda Esperilla, representative of the drivers of that platform, since Uber’s request to AMLO was made after the statements of the Subdirectorate of Terminal and Land Transportation of the ACIM in which it affirmed that the presidency of the Republic was preparing a reform of the Federal Autotransport Regulations so that “the application taxis have free access to provide the service in the federal zone,” as reported by El Economista.
Source: El Economista
