The Guadalajara Reporter

Legislators let mayor off the hook

Jalisco’s state congress saved Chapala Mayor Joaquin Huerta from a two-week suspension from his duties, voting last week to reject a judicial ruling to that effect handed down earlier this year.

The matter revolves around a labor suit filed against the municipal government in February 2010 by Ignacio Valdovinos Anaya, former director of the city’s Catastro land tax office. After the Arbitration and Wage Scale Tribunal ruled in favor of his claim in August 2011, the city was ordered to pay him back wages and benefits, plus severance for unjustified dismissal.

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