New Zealand PM Jacinda Arden suggests shorter working week post-lockdown

As New Zealand anunced lifting of restrictions marking a grual return to life to rmalcy, Prime Minister Jacinda Arden on May 20 reportedly raised prospect of citizens enjoying extra public holidays and a shorter working week. In a bid to kickstart country’s post-lockdown ecomy Arden said that she wanted to ‘encour nimble’ and creative ideas for recovery. After a seven-week lockdown, New Zealand was able to ‘eliminate’ dely coronavirus, however, social distancing measures stalled ecomy.

From moving to a four-day week to creating public holidays, Arden came up with various suggestions to boost ecomy of country. While speaking to international media reporters, Arden said that this is an ‘extraordinary time’ and citizens should be willing to consider extraordinary ideas. Although, she furr also ded that she hasn’t ruled out any in or out as of yet. 

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Arden reportedly said that re is a range of options and country should be open-minded. New Zealand PM also spoke to tourism industry after which she said that working from home during lockdown h shown how productive employees could be given extra facility. Arden believes that a four-day week could work same way if employees were willing to try. 

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NZ ‘eliminates’ COVID-19

Moreover, PM also believes that extra holidays will help boost spending in tourism and hospitality sector which have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19 lockdown. She reportedly said that if something like four-day a week work for companies, n it certainly would help tourism all around country. 

Meanwhile, earlier this week, Arden h declared that country would w move from level three to level two implying that more services would be open. With nearly 1,500 cases of coronavirus and 21 fatalities, New Zealand also became one of first countries outside China on April 27 to claim that it has ‘eliminated’ COVID-19 disease. Arden h also said that she resorted to staggering reaping of country to avoid fresh wave of cases. 

(Im: AP) 

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