Mexico's Federal Government Promotes Sunday Rest by Requiring Businesses to Pay Employees Who Must Work on Sunday Double and Triple Pay

The campaign for Sunday rest is determined to achieve its goal of making Sunday work-free by any means necessary. Mexico has a provision in its federal labor law that forces businesses to pay higher premiums to any employee that has to work on Sundays. It is a type of underhanded technique to incentivize Sunday rest by punishing business owners who open on Sunday. And if Sunday happens to fall on an official holiday, businesses must pay their employees "triple" for working on that day. On June 14, 2023, TV Azteca, located in Veracruz, Mexico, reported the following:

• "If you work on Sundays you should know this about the Sunday premium in accordance with the Federal Labor Law."

• "According to article 69 of the Federal Labor Law, for every six working days, employees have the right to one day of rest. Added to this is article 71, [that] ensures that this day off is Sunday."

• "However, if the worker cannot rest on the last day of the week, the law establishes that he must receive an additional premium of at least twenty-five percent of the salary for ordinary work days, as indicated in article 71."

• "In the event that the working Sunday coincides with a mandatory rest day or an official holiday, workers have the right to receive their double salary for the service."

• "This means that employees must receive triple the payment for that day, added to this, 25 percent of their vacation premium."

Mexico is supposed to be a secular country because its Constitution of 1917 establishes a clear separation between church and state. This means that the government cannot favor or support any particular religion. However, it is evident that their labor laws favor Sunday worshipers while discriminating against businesses that observe God's holy Sabbath on the seventh day and want to be open on Sunday. Paying higher Sunday wages for employees places an undue cost and excessive burden on business owners who observe the seventh-day Sabbath.

The lesson here is that if you don't want to have to pay your employees double or triple wages, then don't open on Sundays. This should be of interest because Mexico is a republic with a Constitution and is located in North America, just south of the United States. And they already have a type of partial national Sunday law codified into their labor laws to punish business that open on Sunday.

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