NIUE PSA SET TO CHALLENGE FOUR-DAY WEEK
Date: 9 February 2007
The Niue Government may have a fight on its hand if public servants decide they can't live with the four-day week Cabinet this week approved.
The bulk of the island's 450 public servants have been put on fewer hous in a bid to salvage a budget shortfall of more than a million dollars.
But anger's growing and there's talk of a rally tomorrow at the Fale Fono.
Shane Tovaka, a PSA member and broadcaster, says the cuts are unexpected and workers have not budgeted for losing as much as a hundred dollars a week, in some cases.
But not everyone's unhappy about the new plan. Mark Cross, the interim chairman for Niue's Chamber of Commerce, says many workers were doing four-day weeks anyway.
Niue's finance minister, Fisa Pihigia, says they had no choice.
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