Ryszard Petru with a new proposal on the ban on Sunday trade. Revolutionary solution
Ryszard Petru has a new idea to liberalize the act on Sunday trade. The decision to open the store would belong to local governments.
For nearly a year in the Sejm there has been a project that has been branded by Poland 2050, assuming the liberalization of the Act on the ban on Sunday trade. The project provides, among others Two commercial Sundays in the month (first and third). A double salary would be entitled to work on the last day of the week, and the employer would be required to appoint the employee a day off (six days before to six days after the day of work on Sunday). However, the project got stuck in the parliamentary committee of social policy and family.
Trade ban on Sunday. Petru’s new proposal
Disasse by the lack of a breakthrough, Ryszard Petru does not rule out that he will soon submit a new project regarding the ban on trade on Sunday.
– I will urge my friends to submit a request for the possibility of delegation of these decisions on Sunday trading on the level of local governments. Those local governments who do not want to open stores would not open them, and those they want would open them – said Petru in an interview with PAP. – There are more conservative places in Poland, let the shops close, let them open the more liberal ones He added.
Polish MP 2050 points out that the proposed solution would be beneficial, among others for tourist towns.
From the middle of last year, the SW Research survey for “Wprost” shows that 56 percent. Poles support the idea of liberalizing Sunday trade. 30.1 percent do not want two commercial Sundays in a month. respondents, and almost 14 percent respondents have no opinion on this matter.
In March, the seventh anniversary of the introduction of the Act on the ban on Sunday trading. Initially, there was a partial trade limitation on the last day of the week – from March to December 2018, the stores were open on the first and last Sunday of the month, in 2019 only on the last one. Eight commercial Sundays have been in force from this year. It is about the last Sunday of January, April, June and August, as well as Sunday before Easter and three Sundays preceding Christmas. This means that the next commercial Sunday will fall on June 29.
