Increasingly, trade workers have to work on Sunday and legal holidays to meet the demand from retailing, small trades, towns, consumers, to the detriment of laws and collective agreements, according to the Filcams-CGIL which launched, in September 2010, a national touring campaign with a videoclip to raise awareness among institutions, consumers and anyone concerned by this. With the slogan “national holidays are not for sale,” the campaign was launched in Rome on February 16th. The Filcams in the capital and in Latium organized a meeting with representatives from the communities, political institutions and the concerned social partners, to discuss the distribution system in the region, where the lack of clear obligation led, according to the trade union, to “illogical liberalization of opening hours on Sundays and legal holidays.” The Filcams is notably calling on the social partners and local institutions to “quickly sit around a negotiating table to do an in-depth review of regional trade laws” to come up with “more definite and balanced [regulations] on the subject.”
“illogical liberalization of opening hours on Sundays and legal holidays.” The Filcams is notably calling on the social partners and local institutions to “quickly sit around a negotiating table to do an in-depth review of regional trade laws” to come up with “more definite and balanced [regulations] on the subject.”
Proposals of the campaign. With this campaign, which will go through key Italian cities and finish in Florence on April 30th, the Filcams wants to spread a new consumption cultur
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