Great Britain: plan to ease law on Sunday shop openings is abandoned

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alistair Darling, announced, on July 3, that the government had given up its plan to end the limitation of Sunday openings. This comes after a consultation which took place between January 13 and April 14 (Réf. 06690)
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“We received nearly 1000 answers from consumers, religious groups, employees and employers, and nobody expressed a true will to change. On this basis, and after a cost/benefit analysis conducted by an independent cabinet, we decided that there would be no modification of the Sunday commercial laws (Sunday trading laws) “. The current legislation, which goes back to 1994, does not impose any restriction on Sunday schedules for shops of less than 280 square meters,, but imposes a maximum opening

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