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Mexico sets new work-from-home rules, including that employers pay internet
Mexico’s Labor Department issued new rules Friday requiring employers to pay for internet and provide ergonomic chairs for employees working from home.
When the best just isn’t good enough
“A COUNTRY Brand is built on two main pillars—business and tourism. Within those two clearly defined categories, you cover all the different elements that make up a Country Brand,” said international communications expert Didier Lagae. “Business covers living and working, investing and exporting. Meanwhile, the high volume of income that tourism contributes each year to the GDP [gross domestic product] of most countries, makes it a strategic sector that governments usually can’t afford to ignore,” said the multiawarded public relations professional in an interview with PR Week on February 18, 2021.
Investment in residential construction a ‘win-win-win’
EVERY $1 million worth of investment in housing construction creates 165 jobs in the Philippines, according to a study commissioned by Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.
Mexico border wall contractors prepare for hostile environment
SAN DIEGO—One potential bidder on President Donald J. Trump’s border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under “hostile attack”. Another asked if employees can carry firearms in states with strict gun-control laws and if the government would indemnify them for using deadly force.
Trump plans to build high wall at Mexican border
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government web site further detailing President Donald J. Trump’s promise to build a “big, beautiful wall” at the Mexican border.
Anti-Trump sentiment rising in Mexico
By the time the last brick is laid atop President Donald J. Trump’s Mexican wall, it’s a fair bet that someone more antagonistic toward the US will hold power on its southern side.
Developmentalism, conservation clash out at sea
CANCUN, Mexico—“We don’t have access to marine areas, because most are protected areas or are in private hands. We indigenous peoples have been losing access to our territories, as this decision became a privilege of the state,” complained Donald Rojas, a member of the Brunka indigenous community in Costa Rica.
Mexico’s ancient beverage of pulque makes a comeback
By Teresa de Miguel / The Associated Press