Will there be two shopping Sundays a month? Minister of Labor skeptical

Last week, MPs from Poland 2050 submitted a motion to liberalize the Sunday trading ban act. It assumes that stores would be open on the first and third Sunday of the month. – This is a kind of compromise between full trade liberalization and a complete ban – said Polish 2050 MP Ryszard Petru.

You would be entitled to double pay for work on the last day of the week. The employer would be obliged to give the employee a day off for work on Sunday six days before or six days after the day of work on Sunday.

It is worth recalling that rules similar to those proposed by Poland 2050 were in force for the first nine months of the Sunday trading ban, between March and December 2018. Trading was then possible on the first and last Sunday of the month. Throughout 2019, stores were open only on the last Sunday of the month, and from 2020, only seven trading Sundays per year apply.

Dziemianowicz-Bąk on the liberalization of the trade ban act

Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy, is skeptical about the idea of ​​liberalizing the Trade Prohibition Act. In “Fakty po Faktach” on TVN24, the minister pointed out that this concept was opposed by the traders themselves. – This is a proposal that the traders themselves and small and medium-sized enterprises associated with the Polish Chamber of Commerce do not agree with. Interestingly, large retail chains are also not on fire to change the current situation – said the head of the Ministry of Labor.

Dziemianowicz-Bąk pointed out that the proposed proposal is also opposed by women who “most often work as cashiers”.

Let us recall that a recent SW Research survey for “Wprost” shows that 46.1 percent of respondents want to lift the trade ban, while 36.1 percent are of the opposite opinion. Almost 18 percent had no opinion on this matter.

The next trading Sunday will be April 28.