Mexico's minimum wage to rise 15% over business objections

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico's daily minimum wage will rise by 15% in January to the equivalent of about $7 per day
By The Associated Press
December 17, 2020, 11:18 AM
• 2 min read

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government announced the country's daily minimum wage will rise by 15% in January to the equivalent of about $7 per day.

The new wage still amounts to less than $1 per hour. But the increase is well above the country’s current 3.3% inflation rate.

Minimum wages on the northern border, which are higher due to higher costs of living, will also rise 15% to about $10.70 per day.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday the business sector had proposed an increase of 10%, but was outvoted by labor and government representatives on the tripartite commission that determines minimum wages.

López Obrador said “workers are going to get an increase that is still, on the world scale, shameful.”

Mexico's minimum wage is the lowest in the Americas — on par with Haiti — and the lowest in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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