Presidential Decree: Officials will not be working on Sundays

The President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, chaired a meeting with the participation of the President’s office staff members on August 27, 2018.

According to "Kun.uz", a number of organizational issues were discussed at the meeting. The need for terminating inessential gatherings was highlighted in particular.

The President has also ordered the timing of the meeting sessions to be reduced. From now on, meetings should not exceed one and a half hours. Organizing meetings early in the mornings or late in the evenings is strictly forbidden with the Decree. Furthermore, heads and other staff members of factories, companies and firms, farmers and entrepreneurs who are not directly involved in the matter being discussed in the meeting, will not be forced to attend it.

Besides, officials will no longer be obliged to work after 5 pm on Saturdays and will have a day-off on Sundays.

The President accentuated the need for officials to spend their time with their families at weekends.

It should be reminded that in spring 2017, the President has announced a "state of emergency" for senior government officials and said they would be working under pressure. After that government officials began working in “24-hours-a-day” regime.

Earlier it was reported that Khayriddin Sultanov and Kahramon Kuranbaev left the post of state advisers as a result of crucial changes in the structure of the president's office.