Public sector staff to work only Mondays and Tuesdays as beleaguered president battles energy crisis,food shortages and droughtFirst it was the three-day weekend; now it’s the two-day working week. Crippled by drought, Venezuela’s government has taken drastic measures as water levels at the country’s largest hydroelectric dam plunge to critical levels.
At the beginning of April, and the Socialist president,Nicolás Maduro, decreed Fridays non-working days for public sector staff, and on Monday the government announced four-hour power outages nationwide. Maduro followed on Tuesday with news that government offices would function only on Mondays and Tuesdays for at least two weeks in an attempt to save energy in the oil-wealthy but cash-strapped country.
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Source: theguardian.com