Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with the country’s worst financial crisis in decades.
The proposal aims to encourage workers to farm as the country struggles to pay for critical imports like fuel, food and medicine.
Many of the country’s population have been queuing up at petrol stations for hours and enduring long power cuts for months.
Sri Lanka will need at least $5 billion to meet essential imports for the rest of the year.
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