The time has come for companies to face Covid-19, the government asks

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Hugo López-Gatell, Undersecretary of Health Prevention of the Ministry of Health, considered that it is time for companies in Mexico to have health systems, suspend all non-essential activities that involve congregation of people in their facilities and encourage working at home or remotely. In contrast to this reality, specialists consider that the home office in Mexico has limited scope, due to the characteristics of the national economy, since more than 90% of corporations are small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). In Mexico there are more than 4 million SMEs, which generate 72% of the country's employment and 52% of the GDP, reports the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). This is an enormous challenge for the world of work and will require a profound transformation, from access to digital tools, hygiene measures, reduction of working hours, corporate responsibility policies and labor laws, warned the University Human Resources professor.


La Salle, José Ramón Barreiro. He emphasized that “no one is prepared for this type of contingencies, not the government, not companies and not society itself. We can exemplify that no one can force employees to do home office.” “The coronavirus (COVID-19) will cause new social responsibility policies to be implemented to meet America Cell Phone Number List the needs of employees. Companies are not prepared to send all their workers home, much less what will happen to their suppliers and customers,” he said. The Employers' Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) in Mexico City (CDMX) reported that effective dialogue and, above all, collaboration between government, society and private initiative is required to implement measures that allow the country's capital continue operating in their economic activity and have health tools appropriate to the contingency. Among the actions that Coparmex CDMX proposes in aspects of COVID-19 are: Make information transparent about the extent of the spread of infections.




Install a High Level Emergency Committee, made up of capital authorities, private initiative and social sectors. Establish a Health Plan, to establish the most relevant measures and avoid infections. Implement healthy distance measures between the population. Establish business communication campaigns with relevant information on how to prevent and address COVID-19 in their workplaces and in employees' homes. Deaf ears to tax suspension The national Coparmex and the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) have made a request for the federal administration to grant greater fiscal stimuli to reduce and contain the negative impact that the health emergency may cause. Both business organizations called on the Federation to accelerate the refund of taxes, particularly the Value Added Tax (VAT) and declare a temporary suspension of provisional payments of the Income Tax (ISR). Despite the call from the private initiative, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has confirmed that the coronavirus response plan does not contemplate any economic stimulus for companies or tax refunds.