Rodolfo Trampe, Jorge Díaz, Luis Alberto King, Fernando de Buen - Getting the Deal Through, Outsourcing Mexico 2015

Rodolfo Trampe, Jorge Díaz, Luis Alberto King, Fernando de Buen - Getting the Deal Through, Outsourcing Mexico 2015

In Mexico, a subcontracting regime (understood as the regime whereby an employer acting as contractor performs works or renders services with its own workers, who depend on it, for a beneficiary, whether an individual or a legal entity, that sets out the contractor's work and supervises the performance of the services or the execution of the contracted works) has generally been associated with outsourcing and with all forms of subcontracting or provision of services and works between

In Mexico, a subcontracting regime (understood as the regime whereby an employer acting as contractor performs works or renders services with its own workers, who depend on it, for a beneficiary, whether an individual or a legal entity, that sets out the contractor's work and supervises the performance of the services or the execution of the contracted works) has generally been associated with outsourcing and with all forms of subcontracting or provision of services and works between companies belonging to the same corporate group.

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