LatinNews Daily - 12 February 2026

*Mexico’s senate has approved a proposed amendment to the constitution (Art. 123) put forward by President Claudia Sheinbaum to reduce the working week from 48 hours to 40 by 2030. The bill was approved in general terms unanimously, by 121 votes in favour, and will now be sent to the lower chamber of congress. The initiative seeks to reduce the work week by two hours each year until 2030 in order to address the fact that Mexicans work some of the longest hours of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, and the country’s working week was last modified in 1917. The reduction was first proposed in 2022 under the previous government led by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), Sheinbaum’s mentor.