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Eugene

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Tue Jun 14, 2016, 04:25 PM Jun 2016

Venezuela Returns to 5 Day Workweek as Energy Crisis Eases

Source: Associated Press

Venezuela Returns to 5 Day Workweek as Energy Crisis Eases

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — Jun 14, 2016, 3:01 PM ET

Venezuela's two-day workweek is no more.

Public workers will now work five days a week again because officials say a severe energy crisis has eased.

In April, the South American country's government decreed that public employees would work just Monday and Tuesday in a bid to save energy.

On Monday, the energy minister said water levels at the dam that supplies most of the country's electricity had been somewhat restored. Workers will now go to the office on Wednesdays, Thursday and Fridays until 1 p.m.

Critics said the office closures were useless, because people just went home and ran their own computers and air conditioning units.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuela-returns-day-workweek-energy-crisis-eases-39853292

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