The Welfare Ministry is also watching the situation closely in order to minimize the adverse effects of the restrictions of electric power on salaried people. Instructions have been sent to prefectural governors to make arrangements with employers in their respective prefectures and see if the employers would be able to advance allowances to the laid-off workers, amounting to 60 per cent. of the labourers' wages during the temporary stoppage of some factories, These measures would apply only to those prefectures where the power supply has been cut by more than 20 per cent,
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