{"id":62928,"date":"2022-06-20T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62928"},"modified":"2022-06-20T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:15:11","slug":"starving-sri-lanka-shortens-work-week-to-give-people-time-to-grow-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62928","title":{"rendered":"Starving Sri Lanka Shortens Work Week to Give People Time to Grow Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Starving Sri Lanka Shortens Work Week to Give People Time to Grow Food<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Sri Lanka\u2019s federal government on Monday approved a proposal that would\u00a0shorten<\/a>\u00a0the work week of most public sector staff to four days so that workers will have time to farm their own crops, Reuters reported Tuesday, noting the measure aims to combat Sri Lanka\u2019s worsening food shortages caused by a recent economic crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cSri Lanka\u2019s Cabinet late on Monday approved a proposal for public sector workers to be given leave every Friday for the next three months, partly because the fuel shortage made commuting difficult and also to encourage them to farm,\u201d Reuters reported on June 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems appropriate to grant government officials leave of one working day \u2026 to engage in agricultural activities in their backyards or elsewhere as a solution to the food shortage that is expected,\u201d the Sri Lankan government information office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The shortened work week will not apply to public sector employees in \u201cessential\u201d fields, such as health or education, Sri Lanka Cabinet Minister Dinesh Gunawardana\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0on June 13.<\/p>\n

In addition to the four-day work week, Sri Lanka\u2019s federal government approved a program on Monday in which \u201cpublic servants can apply for five year no pay leave to go abroad for employment opportunities [sic],\u201d Sri Lanka\u2019s\u00a0Daily Mirror<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a> on June 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will not affect their promotions or retirement upon return,\u201d the newspaper said of the work-abroad initiative.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s public sector employs roughly one million people, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan federal government was forced to give most public sector staff an unplanned day off on June 13 after realizing that worsening power outages and fuel shortages nationwide would make it nearly impossible for the employees to travel to work or conduct business as usual.<\/p>\n

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Starving Sri Lanka Shortens Work Week to Give People Time to Grow Food Buddhika Weerasinghe\/Bloomberg via Getty Images Sri Lanka\u2019s federal government on Monday approved a proposal that would\u00a0shorten\u00a0the work week of most public sector staff to four days so that workers will have time to farm their own crops, Reuters reported Tuesday, noting the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[30132,15792,32979,683,2207],"class_list":["post-62928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-breibart-news","tag-fuel-shortages","tag-gabrielle-reyes","tag-reuters","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62929,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928\/revisions\/62929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}