Poland: Sunday opening of stores will remain allowed

e-europnews December 15, 2006, n°061264 - www.eeuropnews.com
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t, the dissatisfaction of customers and the bankruptcies of small stores of services installed in the commercial galleries. A bill currently under discussion proposes a compromise: to maintain Sunday work but to prohibit it on all the major national and religious holidays. (Ref. 061264)

“Our country is a developing one and sixty days of closing per year would lead a loss of about 3% for the country’s GNP. The national economy would not bear it! ” explains Andrzej Falinski, general manager of PO

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