Mexico City Congress demands protection for delivery workers: "It's a debt we have to pay."

The Mexico City Congress has issued an urgent call to the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (STyFE) to implement a massive awareness campaign on the new labor rights of app delivery drivers, warning that the law is a dead letter if workers are not familiar with it.

A crucial battle for rights in the digital economy is unfolding in Mexico City. Following a major reform to the Federal Labor Law that recognizes essential labor rights for digital platform workers, the capital's Congress has turned its attention to the next, often most difficult, step: ensuring that the law is translated into tangible reality.

In a proposal with an urgent point of agreement, the Citizen Security Commission has urged the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (STyFE) to take immediate action. The mission is clear: inform thousands of delivery workers that their precarious situation has changed, at least on paper.

The central problem identified by Congress is the dangerous information gap. Lawmakers warn that a historic reform is useless if the beneficiaries themselves—the men and women who travel the city on motorcycles and bicycles—are unaware of their new protections.

The proposal emphasizes that every day that passes without an effective publicity campaign is "another day of violations, uncertainty, and omissions." This is a David-versus-Goliath struggle, in which the state must actively intervene, as the giant technology platforms have no incentive to inform their "partners" about rights that will represent higher operating costs.

"It's time to settle a debt with those who sustain the digital economy from the periphery, from motorcycles, from vehicles, and from cell phones."

This powerful phrase, taken from the legislative proposal, encapsulates the spirit of the initiative: it is an act of justice for a segment of the population that has been the driving force of the convenience economy, often at the expense of their own safety and well-being.

Congress's call to the STyFE is not a simple suggestion. It is a formal demand that the city government assume its role as guarantor of labor rights. It is asked to urgently design and implement outreach activities that directly reach workers on the streets.

The approval of the reform was the first step. Now, attention turns to the "last mile" of public policy. The ball is in the local executive's court. The question thousands of delivery workers are asking, whether or not they know they have new rights, is whether the city government will act with the speed the situation demands to turn the law's promises into real, enforceable protections.