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With very low salaries they survive 36% of workers registered in the IMSS in Mexico, alerted the group Citizen Action Against Poverty.
Paulina Gutierrez, coordinator of the group, pointed out that 56% of wage earners in the country lack a living wage.
“We are stuck, because the necessary measures and actions have not been taken to transform these failures.” structural such as social security for all or the inclusion of women.”
And half of the people who earn poverty wages (about 3.9 million) work in large and medium-sized companies. The states with the highest percentage of poor wages are Guerrero, Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Nayarit, Michoacán y Tabasco.
Gutiérrez proposed that the minimum wage reach at least 305 pesos a day to eradicate evil and added that in 2018, they were 54% those who had poor salaries, so he recognized that there has been improvement, but it is not enough.
The front pointed out that 4.3 million people, 20% of those who have formal employment registered in the IMSS, They earn survival wages.
Paulina Gutiérrez stated that the main problem These are the low salaries that do not cover needs and there is also a lack of integration into social security systems such as health and housing, while the exclusion of women in some jobs persists.
Citizen Action Against Poverty created the “Salary Thermometer”, a new report from the Decent Work Observatory, focused on putting the salaries of workers in Mexico under the magnifying glass.
The researcher insisted that it is urgent to increase the minimum wage to a level that is at least enough to purchase two basic baskets in 2025 and add the women with the best salaries within the labor system.
On the International Day for Poverty Eradicationwhich was commemorated yesterday, Gutiérrez called on the new administration and companies to eradicate informality, since these jobs without social security reduce the rights of the people.
“The vast majority of social protection coverage is grouped in Social Security, such as children’s rooms or financing for housing.”
A special case, he explained, is that of migrants who are in a situation of greater vulnerability, because their labor rights are not recognized, which adds even more to the poverty and exclusion in recent years.
In addition, she insisted that some 3.7 million women in Mexico cannot or are not available for employment because they have activities unpaid within their home.
“Mexico has one of the worst labor participation rates for women and this has to change, as well as the situation of exclusion in which 4.9 million young people live,” he said. Paulita Gutierrez.