Posted on 04/26/2016 6:03:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government ordered public workers on Tuesday to work a two-day week as an energy-saving measure in the crisis-hit South American OPEC country.
President Nicolas Maduro had already given most of Venezuela’s 2.8 million state employees Fridays off during April and May to cut down on electricity consumption.
“From tomorrow, for at least two weeks, we are going to have Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as non-working days for the public sector,” Maduro said on his weekly television program.
Full salaries will still be paid despite the two-day week.
Critics have derided Maduro for giving state employees days off, arguing it would hurt national productivity and was unlikely to save electricity because people would simply go home and turn on appliances there instead.
“Maduro says that ‘we in government don’t stop working for a second’. Of course. Except for Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays!” satirized Leonardo Padron, a columnist for pro-opposition El Nacional newspaper, via Twitter.
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Socialist productivity at its finest.
I swear to God that every story about Venezuela seems like it should be coming from The Onion. Socialism is such an evil joke on people.
Bernie Sanders supports will love this. Pay whether you work or not. What a deal!
Based on my own experience working for the US gov’t, that would represent an increase of 100% (or more) for most employees.
Sanders and his followers want to bring it here.
Venezuela is the poster child for what either a Sanders or a Clinton Admin. would bring to this country. Go Trump!
We would be better off without government employees
“Venezuela’s socialist government ordered public workers on Tuesday to work a two-day week as an energy-saving measure in the crisis-hit South American OPEC country. “
Oh for pete’s sake don’t publish this...next thing the hacks here in MA will be demanding 2-day work weeks.
Meanwhile, unions representing Venezuela’s government employees protested the requirement that their members work two days a week for the same salary as before, claiming working two full days a week more than doubled the amount of work they previously had to perform to earn that salary.
“Based on my own experience working for the US gov’t, that would represent an increase of 100% (or more) for most employees.”
Mrs. VanShuyten works for the feds, and she works hard. However, not a week goes by when she doesn’t say, “What the hell do those people DO all day?”
I think if they had four more of her type, they could fire just about everyone else in her section - that’s about 30-40 people.
As long as I get paid my full salary for working only 2 days, no problem!/s
Remember the old joke:
Q: How many people work there?
A: Oh, about half of them.
Venezuela has nothing on her agency.
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