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Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector employees to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and to encourage them to grow food, the government announced on Tuesday, as the country faces its worst financial crisis in decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The island nation, which employs approximately one million people in the public sector, has been hit by a severe foreign exchange shortage, leaving it unable to pay for critical imports of fuel, food, and medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the country’s 22 million people have to queue for hours at gas stations and have been without power for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka<\/a>‘s Cabinet approved a proposal late Monday for public sector workers to be given Friday off for the next three months, partly due to the fuel shortage, but also to encourage them to farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It appears appropriate to grant government officials one working day off… to engage in agricultural activities in their backyards or elsewhere as a solution to the expected food shortage,” the government information office said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the UN warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in the island nation, pledging $47 million to assist more than a million vulnerable people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currency depreciation, rising global commodity prices, and a now-reversed policy prohibiting the use of chemical fertilizers pushed food prices up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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