South Cambridgeshire District Council's ground breaking experiment with a four-day working week is facing an abrupt end, following a directive from local Government minister Lee Rowley.
The council, the first in the UK to embark on such a trial, had intended to extend the initiative until April, but concerns about the "value for money" for local taxpayers prompted the minister's intervention.
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