Good Labor Practices and Decent Work Accreditation System

General Information

Institution:

Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) of Mexico

Country:

Mexico

Contact person:

General Directorate of Institutional Relations

Position:

Labor Policy and Institutional Relations Unit

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

+ 52 55 20005100 ext 63323

Which of the following topic(s) applies to the program?:

Topics:

Enforcement and awareness of labor legislation

Fight against discrimination

Child labor

Forced labor

Occupational safety and health

Program Description

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Description:

The Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare seeks to foster decent work in Mexico from a holistic approach that does not disregard any labor rights and, at the same time, aims at supporting work centers so that they can improve their level of compliance with labor regulations. In this sense, the General Directorate of Social Welfare developed a Good Labor Practices and Decent Work Accreditation System, which, through various supplementary mechanisms, allows work centers to declare their level of compliance with labor regulations, get certified in practices exceeding the legal framework, and support them in the implementation of administration systems for occupational safety and health.

The system’s components include the following:

Voluntary Labor Verification Program, which serves as a means to access the system. It has an online component and another related to verification visits on site. The program will allow work centers to declare their compliance with labor regulations through an alternative mechanism to inspections.
Certification in Labor Liabilities, which will allow work centers to get certified in compliance with standards that exceed the Mexican regulation framework through a shared core of requirements and specialization paths in topics such as labor equality and inclusion or eradication of child labor and forced labor.
Self-management Program in Occupational Safety and Health, which enables the implementation of administration systems for occupational safety and health through IT support and advisory visits by federal labor inspectors. This program grants fiscal benefits on social security to work centers if their systems are accredited by the STPS.

In order to strengthen the Good Labor Practices and Decent Work Accreditation System, a conceptual correlation was established with other international standards such as ISO 26000 – Guidance on Social Responsibility, and the World Bank’s Performance Standard 2 – Labor and Working Conditions.

Objectives:

The Certification in Labor Liabilities is scheduled to be provided to work centers soon and aims at promoting a culture of respect for human and labor rights based on social responsibility, in which the community, workers and work centers can establish sustainable labor relations as an inter-institutional synergy. As mentioned above, this Certification focuses on vulnerable populations.

Labor Inclusion: people with disabilities; seniors; heads of family in charge of people with disabilities or seniors; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) carriers; Mexicans with African descent; people of aboriginal groups, and sexually-diverse people.

Labor Equality and Co-responsibility: workers from certified work centers, as well as their dependents and third parties, thus recognizing diversity of families and homes.

Eradication of Child Labor and Forced Labor: agricultural day laborers, focusing on their children, as well as children of workers from the work centers and communities where they operate; it also includes adolescents of working age.

Year of Start:

2021

Estimated duration:

Undefined

Target population:

Workers

Employers

Evaluation and Documentation

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Describe the challenges of the program:

The organization and implementation of the system will begin shortly in Mexico. The system’s website will be launched soon by the STPS.