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However, the CTM, rather than considering the cost implied by forcing workers to accept these conditions, preferred to maintain its own position as a negotiation partner representing the labor sector in dealings with the government and business organizations, and so it accepted these kinds of agreements. One of the factors that made labor reform possible in Mexico without any revision of legislation is the conclusion of these types of economic and work ethics agreements which not only imposed great restrictions on the labor movement, but also brought the labor sector into line with the fundamental policies of the government and the business sector.
9. 10. 11. 12. 43 (ii) Promote the creation of jobs and preserve existing ones “through the rational use of the available resources and through the development in the enterprise of better forecasting capacities and adaptation to changes. (iii) Provide fair remuneration levels that “foster the development of productivity and competitiveness and reward the individual and the collective efforts made by the enterprise”. (iv) Encourage the training of workers and entrepreneurs as a permanent and systematic process throughout working life.
V) Strengthen dialogue and agreement “as appropriate methods to make labor–management relationships develop in a harmonic atmosphere” (Aguilar and Vargas 2006: 102–3). Short-term employment refers to employment over 12 days without interruption, or working for the same employer over a two-month period with interruptions, but including 30 effective working days (Federal Executive Power 2000). Regini classifies labor flexibility into four types: (1) numerical flexibility: the numbers of workers employed can be adapted to meet fluctuations in demand, (2) functional flexibility: the tasks carried out by employees can be adapted to changes in demand, (3) wage flexibility: management is free to alter wages and wage system in response to changing labor market or competitive conditions, and (4) temporal flexibility: the adjustment of the amount of labor utilized in accordance with cyclical or seasonal shifts in demand (Regini 2000: 16–17).