A trade group for talent platforms in Mexico said it’s willing to work the government to ensure successful implementation of benefits for delivery people, drivers and other gig economy platform workers under a new law in Mexico. The group Alianza in Mexico is made up of platform firms such as DiDi, Rappi and Uber. It called for the Mexican government to implement working groups to get the process rolling.

Separately, Martín Padulla, founder and CEO of staffingamericalatina, also weighed in. Padulla believes the law may undergo changes.

The legislation was signed into law by President Claudia Sheinbaum on Dec. 24. However, it will take effect in June.

“The reform represents an important step towards social security for those who use digital platforms to generate income,” Alianza in Mexico wrote in its announcement, a copy of which was sent to SIA.

“However, the success of this effort will depend largely on the secondary provisions that are issued by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the Mexican Institute of Social Security and by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit through the Administration Tax Service,” it said.

The organization continued, “As they have repeatedly stated, digital platforms for intermediating mobility and delivery services share and support the objective set by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, aimed at providing access to social security to those who provide services using digital platforms.”

Separately, staffingamericalatina’s Padulla noted there will likely be changes before the law takes effect in June.

“My perception is that it’s not going to be like it is right now,” Padulla said. There is a lot of conversation taking place around the law, and there will likely be lobbying efforts by [the] platform industry.

“It seems a kind of social security is going to be effective for the gig workers, but the key objective is to keep a flexible relationship between the platforms and the workers with rights but with freedom in terms of not becoming another rigid, old-fashioned employee relationship,” he said.

Padulla also noted Sheinbaum’s administration does not appear to lean quite as far to the left as did his predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mexico’s law got tough on the staffing industry during Obrador’s administration, and now firms focus on business process outsourcing rather than staffing.

Still, the Mexican staffing association is currently working to achieve a temporary staffing law, Padulla said.