Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Protection of Workers' Claims (Employer's Insolvency) Convention, 1992 (No. 173) - Mexico (Ratification: 1993)

Part IV of the report form. The Committee notes that, between 1 January 2002 and 30 June 2007, there were 57,135 ordinary inspections relating to general conditions of work in enterprises subject to federal jurisdiction and that no infringements of the legislation were identified in the fields covered by the convention. The committee also notes with interest the information provided by the Government concerning the action taken by the Office of the Federal Defender of Workers’ Rights (PROFEDET) for the protection of workers’ wage claims. In particular, it notes that the PROFEDET intervened on behalf of 1,077 workers who are members of the National Autonomous Union of Workers in the Metal, Mechanical and Allied Industries, and that a precautionary seizure was carried out on that occasion following the insolvency of the enterprise national Castings de México SA de CV. The Committee requests the Government to provide fuller information on the amount of wage arrears that it was possible to pay the workers concerned. The Government is also requested to continue providing information on the application of the convention in practice, including information on the action undertaken by the PROFEDET for the protection of workers’ wage claims in the event of the insolvency of their employer, on the number of prosecutions initiated in this field and the number of workers concerned by such prosecutions.