The private security sector requested this Friday to the authorities and legislators Working day at 40 hours a week.
During the third forum for implementation Working week 40 hours, Mexican Association of Private Security Companies (AMPS) He warned that the implementation without adjustments would subject his work to risk and encourage informality.
General manager Amesp, Verónica Torres LandaHe explained that observation activity occurs in long shifts, in “sensitive areas”, such as airports, hospitals, factories or mass events.
“The interruption of their days from a generalized reduction is not viable without affecting their work,” said the representative of the agency, who emphasized that the staff is faced with “high risk and conditions of constant pressure”.
He added that the reduction of the day without an adequate coverage strategy “I could increase operational errors and endanger.”
According to Torres Landa, To correspond to the lighting of observation during reduced days, it would be necessary to double the staff, which is a financially unstable scenario for many companies in the official sector.
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Therefore, he warned that this could encourage informal work practice and worsen the conditions that are precisely intended to improve the reform.
Director AMPS He also warned of the difficulties of logistics that private security workers face, such as long night routes, sometimes without public transport, which affects their rest and quality of life.
Before this panorama AMPS offers to classify private security as a “special work” within the framework Federal Labor Law, So its regulation considers its “specific working conditions.”
“We do not oppose improving working conditions. On the contrary, we want them to be stable and safe for everyone. But the use of a unique scheme for sectors with such various realities can cause more problems than solutions, ”said Torres Landa.
His participation ended with a “respectful appeal to the Labor and Labor and Legislators to open a technical and specialized dialogue, which allows you to create a fair, viable and appropriate regulation of the country’s reality.”
Currently discusses the reduction in the working day from 48 to 40 hours a week Mexican Congress
