This article is updated following the decision of the Constitutional Court of 5 August that overturned the provision setting up a compensation scale for unfair dismissal (see comments below)
Sunday and night-time work. This is the socially symbolic element of the new law. A mayor will be able to authorize work for between 5 and 12 Sundays a year for every retail business (food retailers already benefit from a special system allowing them to open until 13.00 hrs.). Currently the mayor has the rig
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