Affirmative Action, Employment Discrimination and Free Trade in Mexico - International economic transfers fill much of the gap.
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Sunday, March 8, 2009 |
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Affirmative Action, Employment Discrimination and Free Trade in Mexico - The problem of opportunities in Mexico is entirely different from that of industrialized nations with pockets of poverty. In Mexico's case a vast majority of the population requires some form of affirmative action which cannot come solely from domestic relations. International economic transfers fill much of the gap.
In the prior chapter we discussed how employment discrimination in favor of Mexicans helps preserve sources of income for Mexicans. This policy is being challenged by free traders because in their view Mexican labor is not competitive.
Another school of thought is against freeing the labor markets in Mexico and recognizing the contradiction between free trade and labor protection. This is especially true in agriculture and services where some of Mexico’s most backward economic activities are located. In fact, those against freeing labor markets say the current labor law with a certain philosophy based on affirming the rights of women, seniors, youth and indigenous population should not change, and if need be trade should serve the purposes of a certain social policy and not the other way around.
- Nowhere is the labor protection more evident than in the aphorism "equal work, equal pay" because this principle embodied in the law means that a state commission and then an arbitration board will be ultimately responsible to set the wage policy with regard to different groups and not the free markets.
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