These contents will provide us with great tools to apply in our companies and communities, understanding the company as the sum of customers, suppliers, collaborators and the entire environment that surrounds it. Let's remember that the company is all of us!
ZAPOPAN, Jalisco; November 28, 2022.- Coparmex, the voluntary employers' union that brings together businessmen from different sectors, hosted the most important event of the Confederation: "Encuentro por México" dedicated to all citizens, professionals and entrepreneurs who want to create new connections and contribute to making better decisions for a better country.
Meeting for Mexico
Carlos Villaseñor Franco, President of Coparmex Jalisco and Alumni of the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara, reminded everyone during the inauguration of the event of the responsibility of companies regarding gender, racial and social equality in job opportunities. He also invited businessmen to promote development and the generation of welfare with better opportunities in education, health, housing and security, all this through formal employment, remembering that 98% is generated from economic units.
Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Constitutional Governor of the State of Jalisco; Pablo Lemus Navarro, Municipal President of Guadalajara; José Medina Mora Icaza, National President of Coparmex, state and municipal authorities, the business community, sponsors, members of the Al Invest Verde consortium and the media were in attendance. Welcome to all of you.
Participating Alumni
Next, the Alumni participating in this great event; Paulina Amuzurrutia participated in the Panel "Everyone to school, everyone learns, everyone lives together! A quality education for all" with the aim of learning about the new educational model, analyzing whether it ensures training, inclusion, development and competitiveness, and learning about proposals from specialists in the field. In his speech he emphasized the need for a true social structuring in favor of the common good of Mexico.
In order to improve education, what is needed is to bring together all stakeholders: government, teachers, parents and specialists. He pointed out that the organization Educación con Rumbo has found that one of the deficits in this area is connectivity, which was fundamental during the pandemic, as it was necessary for children to have classes and to be able to train teachers. He stressed the importance of innovation and creativity, and entrepreneurs have already gone a long way in this area. He highlighted the work of civil society organizations to achieve, including through legal resources, a return to classes with health protocols, that school grades were not eliminated and that the pilot education program was not implemented.
Alumni Ricardo Barbosa, was the moderator of the panel "Informality in the world and in Mexico" in order to present the vision and recommendations of the International Labor Organization on the global reality of informality, the implications in Mexico from its structural and cultural dimensions.
In his speech, he pointed out that the numbers on informality are heartbreaking. Fifty-five percent of the people who work in Mexico work informally, without access to social security, a decent pension, health services, or even a bank account.
From informality to illegality is a very small step, so we must find ways for young people to understand the importance of moving to formality. In informality everyone loses, those who practice it because they have no benefits, the employer who has an unfair competition and the State that loses in tax collection.
Ignacio Mestas, also an Alumni, participated in the panel "Causes of informality and proposals to move towards formality" with the purpose of making known the problems and proposals of those who are directly related to the informal economy in order to reach agreements that encourage the transition to formality. He pointed out that the people who work in the informal economy are proactive people, who support their families and are willing to enter formality, but the authorities have not come down to listen to them.
He gave as an example Guadalajara, where there are more municipal markets in the country. He said that there are 95 markets, with 13,000 commercial premises and 7,500 users, which provide work for 15,000 families.
He talked about how the solution to this problem is simply to listen to them. For example, on the health issue as such, what they want from IMSS is to have a pension, because now they are economically active, but when they are 65 or 70 years old they will not have the opportunity to retire.
The Universidad Panamericana is proud to see its Alumni transcending in the working world, exposing topics that seek to help the population and the situation of the country. We hope they inspire the next generations, and at the same time we thank them for putting the name of the institution on high.
