Brazil Tweaks Work Hours For Women's World Cup
Brazil said Tuesday it will change civil servants' work schedules so they can watch the national team play in the women's World Cup -- a concession until now reserved for the men's top-flight football tournament. The employees can start their work days later so as to take in the tournament starting Thursday in Australia and New Zealand. "It is a measure of equity to give civil servants wishing to watch the matches the same rights as during the men's World Cup," the minister for management and innovation, Esther Dweck, said in a statement. As the tournament gets under way on the other side of the world, Brazil's team will start their games at either 7:00 am or 8:00 am Brazilian time.
