Venezuela's public sector will only work Mondays and Tuesdays for another two weeks

Monday, May 30th 2016 - 07:36 UTC

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Venezuela's government on Saturday extended by two weeks a decree reducing the public sector workweek to Mondays and Tuesdays in a bid to tackle the oil-rich country's electricity crisis. The enforced leave was first announced in late April, a drastic move for a government also grappling with an economic crisis that has Venezuelans queuing for hours to buy scarce supplies. Read full article

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golfcronie
Why work at all, no doubt they will be paid nevertheless work or not. Isn't it true that is the problem in Latam, no person wants to work there.
May 30th, 2016 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tik Tok
Meanwhile in Brazil after a new Government they are finding thousands of ghost workers who are paid but never appear, welcome to the socialist paradise....
May 30th, 2016 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
Same thing in Uruguay under The Broad Fraud.
May 30th, 2016 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Don Alberto
“President Nicolas Maduro's administration blames the power shortage on a drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon”

chap must be completely off his rocker - it is undubitably a CIA plot! alternatively one of brasileroidiot's 5-eyes monster eating the rain clouds or any other non-natural cause, except Maderahead's little talking bird.
May 30th, 2016 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jonaz_BsAs
I wonder how many members of the the Maduro-gov't have realized how f-ing insane their governance is and is just tagging along to reap whatever benefits might be left. Quite a few, one would think.
May 31st, 2016 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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