Employing Help in Mexico - Working Hours
Many and probably most Americans and Canadians living in Mexico have maids and staff. Learn the law for working hours.
9/6/20231 min read
The working week must not exceed:
48 hours for day shifts
42 hours for night shifts
45 hours for mixed shifts
The working week consists of six working days. However, the daily or weekly distribution of hours can be agreed so that employees have all, or part of, Saturday and Sunday as regular days off.
Employees required to work on Sundays (as a regular work day) as noted above are entitled to an additional bonus amounting to an extra 25% of their usual daily wages.
An employee can only be required to work overtime in exceptional circumstances.
Employees are paid:
Double their usual wages for the first nine hours of overtime per week.
Three times their usual wages for each subsequent hour of overtime per week.