Mexican Congress OKs biggest labour shake-up in decades


MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate on Tuesday approved a wide-reaching but watered- down labour reform bill in the biggest shake-up of the country's job market in more than four decades.

The bill's approval came after a protracted tussle between outgoing President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN) and pro-union hardliners within the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto. The PRI has traditionally relied on union support.

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