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   New Zealand PM suggests employers consider 4-day work week

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   [116]World

New Zealand PM suggests employers consider 4-day work week

   New Zealand's prime minister wants employers to consider switching to a
   four-day work week as a way to promote tourism, which has been hard-hit
   by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Jacinda Ardern says compressed week 'certainly would help tourism all around
the country'

   The Associated Press · Posted: May 21, 2020 9:15 AM ET | Last Updated:
   May 21
   New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bumps elbows with Albert Te
   Pou, Master Carver, during a tour of Te Puia New Zealand Māori Arts and
   Crafts Institute earlier this week in Rotorua, N.Z. (Michael
   Bradley/Getty Images)

   New Zealand's prime minister wants employers to consider switching to a
   four-day work week as a way to promote tourism, which has been hard-hit
   by the coronavirus pandemic.

   Jacinda Ardern said in a Facebook Live video this week that people had
   learned a lot about flexibility and working from home during the
   nation's lockdown, which was eased last week.

   New Zealand's tourism industry had accounted for about 10 per cent of
   the economy but has ground to a halt during the outbreak.

   The South Pacific nation's borders remain closed, but Ardern said that
   as much as 60 per cent of tourism was domestic and that more flexible
   working arrangements could allow New Zealanders to travel more within
   their own country.

   Ardern said she has heard many ideas, including suggestions from people
   who want to see a four-day work week or more flexibility around travel
   and leave.

   "Ultimately, that really sits between employers and employees," she
   said. "But as I've said, there's lots of things we've learned about
   COVID and just that flexibility of people working from home, the
   productivity that can be driven out of that."
     * [117]Maritime provinces with few COVID-19 cases float travel bubble
       but public health experts urge caution

     * [118]The new normal: School for children of essential workers and a
       look at what the future may hold

Country has few COVID-19 deaths

   She said she would encourage employers to think about whether or not a
   four-day work week is something that would work for their workplace,
   "because it certainly would help tourism all around the country."

   Like neighbouring Australia, New Zealand has so far escaped a high
   number of casualties.

   The country has had just over 1,500 coronavirus infections, with 1,452
   of those considered recovered. The country, which imposed a tight
   lockdown that has since been eased, has [119]reported a total of 21
   deaths.

   WATCH | Jacinda Ardern talks about how to encourage tourism, floats the
   idea of more flexible work:

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