Mexico reduces standard workweek to 40 hours by 2030
The law establishes a 40-hour statutory standard workweek through incremental implementation while allowing employers to increase the amount of weekly overtime that can be worked.
Change
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a bill to cut the legal standard workweek from 48 to 40 hours by trimming two hours per year beginning in 2027 and allowing employers to expand weekly overtime; the measure now requires two-thirds approval by Mexico's state legislatures to take effect.
Why it matters
The law will force employers to treat fewer hours as regular time and to separate newly permitted overtime in scheduling and payroll systems. The reform preserves existing rest-day rules, so firms must adjust hours and contracts without reducing legally mandated rest periods.
Implications
- — Human resources and payroll teams at Mexican formal-sector employers must redesign employment contracts, shift schedules, and payroll and time-tracking systems to segregate the reduced regular hours from expanded overtime before the law takes effect in 2027 or face non-compliance when the shorter workweek begins.
- — Deputies in Mexico's state legislatures must convene and secure two-thirds approval for the bill or it will not take effect.
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