{"id":337,"date":"2020-04-15T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=337"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:47:00","slug":"aus-working-hours-to-change-as-ramadan-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/aus-working-hours-to-change-as-ramadan-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS working hours to change as Ramadan begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nourhan Samra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY &#8211; The American University of Sharjah announced the updated working hours for the month of Ramadan, Eid Al Fitr and the summer semester in an email on Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the email, Human Resources stated that the holy month is expected to begin on April 23 or 24 and end on May 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the email, departments can provide two working-hour options, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during Ramadan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer working hours will be in effect starting June 28 to Aug. 6, Human Resources wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEmployees may request a two-hour reduced schedule each day during this period,\u201d they added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Departments should ensure office coverage between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer period, according to the email.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university will be closed for Eid Al Fitr from May 24-28, and will resume working on May 31, Human Resources stated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nourhan Samra UNIVERSITY CITY &#8211; The American University of Sharjah announced the updated working hours for the month of Ramadan, Eid Al Fitr and the summer semester in an email on Sunday.&nbsp; In the email, Human Resources stated that the holy month is expected to begin on April 23 or 24 and end on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-campus","9":"tag-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}