{"id":42557,"date":"2022-03-17T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/17\/philippines-four-day-working-week-rising-costs"},"modified":"2022-03-17T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:14:23","slug":"philippines-considers-four-day-working-week-to-combat-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42557","title":{"rendered":"Philippines considers four-day working week to combat rising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economist calls for compressed working hours with 10-hour days in response to higher fuel prices<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/mar\/10\/ukraine-news-russia-war-kyiv-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskiy-russian-invasion-hospital-bombing-latest-live-updates\">Ukraine-Russia war \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Philippines is considering a four-day working week to conserve energy, as the cost of fuel continues to rise globally, driven by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are searching for ways to soften the impact of dramatic price increases, which have prompted calls for a rise in the minimum wage and greater assistance for drivers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/17\/philippines-four-day-working-week-rising-costs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist calls for compressed working hours with 10-hour days in response to higher fuel pricesUkraine-Russia war \u2013 latest updatesThe Philippines is considering a four-day working week to conserve energy, as the cost of fuel continues to rise globally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2579,41,6,666,657,221,59,449,55,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-energy","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-commodities","category-energy-industry","category-europe","category-global-development","category-oil","category-philippines","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42558,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42557\/revisions\/42558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}