{"id":40823,"date":"2021-12-07T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T09:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=40823"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T09:17:37","slug":"dubai-government-announces-four-and-a-half-day-working-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/12\/07\/dubai-government-announces-four-and-a-half-day-working-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Government announces four and a half day working week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In compliance with the UAE govt decision, Dubai govt announces a 4 &amp; a half day working week for public sector employees. The weekend has been changed to Saturday &amp; Sunday, with Friday being a half-day. The changes will be effective as of January 1, 2022 across all govt entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The changes to the working week system also include new official working hours. Public sector employees will be expected to work from 7:30am to 3:30pm from Monday to Thursday (8 hours) and until 12:00pm on Fridays (4.5 hours).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In compliance with the UAE govt decision, Dubai govt announces a 4 &amp; a half day working week for public sector employees. The weekend has been changed to Saturday &amp; Sunday, with Friday being a half-day. The changes will be effective as of January 1, 2022 across all govt entities. The changes to the working &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40825,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40823\/revisions\/40825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}