translated from Spanish: Senate approves labor reform

With 120 votes in favour, zero against and two abstentions, the full Senate approved Monday in general the opinion of the labour reform non-reserved items, related to the labour courts and freedom of Association.
This reform, sent by the Chamber of Deputies, includes items such as the Elimination of the boards of conciliation and arbitration, to create labour courts in the judiciary, and the vote free, secret and direct to choose leaders, avoiding the a show of hands voting.
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The approval, said the newspaper Reforma, will enable Mexico to comply with requirements or commitments that established, to form part of the trade agreement with the United States and Canada, the so-called T-MEC.
The senators voted different provisions of laws Federal Labor, organic of the power of the Federal judiciary, Federal Public Defender, of the Institute of the National Housing Fund for workers and Social Security.
Matches institutional revolutionary (PRI), national action (PAN), of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and citizen movement voted for reform, although they considered that there are aspects to improve and balance the relations between unions, same that will be addressed at the next ordinary session.
After realizing the voting in general, began to discuss more than 80 reserves.
According to a statement from the Senate, these are some of the approved:
-Is established “as an obligation of employers give their workers, for free, a printed copy of the collective agreement of initial work or examination, within the 15 days following that is deposited with the Centro Federal de conciliation and” Employment record”
-In chapter II of the Federal Labour Act, trade unions, federations and confederations, is established in article 357 “that workers and employers, without distinction whatsoever and without prior authorization, have the right to establish organizations “that deem appropriate, so as to join them, with the single condition observe the statutes of the first”.
-“The reform stipulates that members of trade unions, federations and confederations, have the rights of free membership and may not be forced to form, or no, part of the same”.
-Article 358 says that the choice of policies of trade unions and federations “must be by personal, free, direct and secret vote of its members, and that the period of duration of the policy may not be indefinite. In addition, federations and confederations must be constituted by at least two trade union organizations”.
-The reform adds chapter IX Bis, “to create the Centre Federal Conciliation and labour registry, which enables to make the conciliatory role in federal matters and keep the record of all collective contracts of employment, internal rules of the” itself and of the trade unions”.
-“The reform stipulates, in the” The Social Security Actdisputes between policyholders and their beneficiaries and the Institute about the benefits afforded by the law, must be processed before the federal courts in labour matters. While the who is present between the Institute and patterns (and other required subject), be they processed before the Federal Court of administrative justice”.
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