Special PSD team to study four-day working week


KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Service Department (PSD) has set up a special team to study the implementation of a four-day working week following a request for a thorough analysis from various parties.

"The team will research on behalf of the government which sectors, as well as maximum and minimum working hours based on the Employment Act 1955, before making a decision,” PSD director-general, Datuk Seri Mohd Shafiq Abdullah (pic), told reporters after launching an enforcement integrity module (MIP) at the Malaysian Institute of Integrity (IIM) on Thursday (June 30).

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