To face drought and save the government of Nicolás Maduro has announced the temporary reduction of the working day only to a third of 13.5 hours of the 40 weekly weekly As of this Monday throughout the public administration.
The new working schedule will be three days with a day 4 and a half hours, From 8 am at 12:30 pm only on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday For the next six weeks if the Maduro regime manages to solve the electrical crisis at that time or must prolong the emergency.
For better or worse Venezuelans have taken a big surprise because without warning they have had to modify their agendas and commitments acquired in advance.
The measure of working only three days a week does not include the education sector. In fact, teachers and teachers take classes three times a week because there is not enough teaching staff, who complains about the low salary he earns in the public sector.
The Chavista government said that the reduction of the working day obeys the “climatic emergency”, Due to drought, product of the decrease in water level in reservoirs that supply hydroelectric and thermoelectric energy.
Thermoelectric and hydroelectric plants
Venezuela suffers from a Chronic energy crisis Despite the large investments that have been made to recover thermoelectric and hydroelectric plants (Guri) but money has vanished by corruption leaving the nation in the dark.
According to Oscar Murillo, director of the NGO provides, The electricity generation in Venezuela is «at 80% below its capacity. The generation of energy and transmission follows to the limit so that ration measures return as lifeguard ».
The measure will now apply to all public administration workers. Represents a setback to the great energy crisis that the country lived ten years ago and the epidemic of Covid 19 (2020 and 2022) when work and social activities were restricted. “The reduction of working hours will contract the national economy more,” said economist José Guerra.
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