Posted on 02/01/2018 5:58:40 PM PST by marshmallow
There will be a near total ban on shops opening on Sundays by 2020
Polish president Andrzej Duda has approved a law to phase out Sunday shopping by 2020.
The law was supported by trade unions and by the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), who piloted it through both houses of parliament. The unions see it as a protection of workers’ rights while PiS wants to allow people more time to spend with their families.
Sunday shopping is now restricted in Poland to the first and last Sunday of the month until the end of the year. Next year, it will only be permitted on the last Sunday of the month, until a near total ban comes into force in 2020.
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Note to self: if visiting Poland, make sure you score the Stolichnaya Saturday night.
Would be good for us to observe the Sabbath. I think it is more of a local issue, however.
Sounds like a good idea now that football is no big deal.
I recall when Sundays were pretty much everything was shut down.
It certainly was a different time.
Not sure that I agree with it, but it was different.
I was working at a grocery store on Sunday (late 50's) in a small town in South Alabama when the cops came and shut us down.
Only the truck stops were open. EVERYthing else was shut down at least till 3 or 4 in the afternoon.
We all went to church together, went home and had the relatives over who wanted to come, and had a good Sunday dinner.
Then, us boys would break out the baseball bats and gloves and the kids from down the road would arrive and it was a hell of a baseball game in the summer, football in the fall, and basketball in the winter, or shinty when the ponds froze.
TV? To hell with it, we got only two channels and most of the time they were nothing but snow.
A Christian nation and it’s like minded foundations are history, therefore we are diminished, and it’s a certainty the Constitution has to be next. Kiss your Bill of Rights “ goodbye” as well.
The neighboring county here in NJ (Bergen County, where the George Washington Bridge connects to NYC) still has Blue Laws - all the malls and retail stores are closed on Sundays. Supermarkets, liquor stores, etc. are still open.
Leftists tried to overturn them by claiming a religious bias, and many non-Christian residents supported keeping them: It was the only day their streets weren’t packed with traffic (much of it from NYC).
In my area many banks are open on Sundays now (because a new bank in the area started that years ago); when people tell me how great that is, I tell them they think so because they themselves aren’t working Sundays. Oddly enough, they all agree with me, then reflect on it.
In iron mining areas along the NJ/NY border north of me, people worked 6 1/2 days - they had Sunday afternoons off. Closing everything on Sundays protected people from that...
You mean they are going to have their lives back one day a week? How nice.
Sunday visiting, no trucks on the roads, Sunday drives, card games, picnics, beach days, get togethers in backyards, just a nice quiet time.
I remember when our state had nothing larger than a small (these days)pharmacies open on Sunday. No truck traffic went through, all the truckers started their trucks at midnight to begin their journeys.
Q. How many Poles does it take to shut down Sunday?
A. None
Those were the days. I think this is refreshing; people don’t have to shop 24/7 and they used to plan ahead not to have to do so on Sundays. It was for family time.
Poland is a ray of hope for Europe.
They were wealthier.
I am not sure how, but a society that does not have to work or sell 7 days a week is somehow wealthier than one that can take a day off.
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