Poles on the restoration of shopping Sundays. A surprising survey
Poles are once again in favor of lifting the ban on Sunday trading, according to a survey by SW Research and the Offerista Group. No changes are expected in this matter for now.
Poles have changed their mind about the ban on Sunday trading – writes “Rzeczpospolita”, which presents the latest survey on this issue. A survey by SW Research and the Offerista Group shows that 52.6% of Poles want the return of Sunday trading, of which the answer is “definitely “yes” was given by 28.3 percent. respondents, and 24.3 percent “probably yes”. Almost 39 percent of respondents have the opposite opinion (“definitely” do not want the return of Sunday trading, 20.5 percent of respondents answered “rather not”). The newspaper reminds that in a survey conducted on At the beginning of this year, opponents of restoring shopping Sundays prevailed.
– The issue of the Sunday trading ban, even though this topic has been in the public sphere for over six years, is still heating up Poles. And this is clearly visible after this edition of the study. In addition, just before the parliamentary elections, the current ruling coalition announced that it would abolish the above-mentioned ban, which further raised the atmosphere in the case – comments Robert Biegaj, a market expert from the Offerista Group, quoted by the daily.
– From time to time there is information in the media that something is happening in this matter, but as you can see, there is little sign of visible changes. Despite this, it can be seen that there is still hope in society – and quite a lot of it – that the matter will finally be resolved. To this we can add that the result is still impressive, because after all, half of the adult society would like this type of changes – he adds.
Trading ban on Sunday. There is no chance for change for now?
There is a draft amendment to the regulations in the Sejm, which includes, among others: a return to the rules that were in force in the first period after the introduction of the current act, i.e. two commercial Sundays a month (this would be the first and third Sunday of the month). Moreover, the project provides that employees working on the last day of the week would be entitled to double remuneration, and the employer would be obliged to designate the employee a day off 6 days before or 6 days after the working day on Sunday. The project is stuck in parliamentary committees, but its originator Ryszard Petru from Poland 2050 announces that public consultations will be held this month.
A SW Research survey for “Wprost” conducted at the end of June shows that 56 percent of respondents are in favor of introducing two shopping Sundays a month. 30.1 percent of respondents do not want such a solution, while almost 14 percent of respondents do not want this solution. regarding the sentence.
The law restricting Sunday trading has been in force since March 2018. From 2020, there are only seven trading Sundays a year. The next one will be December 15.