LatinNews Daily - 25 February 2026

*Mexico’s lower chamber of congress 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 unanimously with 469 votes in favour. The initiative, which was approved by the senate earlier this month, 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 amendment was first proposed in 2022 under the previous government led by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), Sheinbaum’s mentor.