Poland Considers Limiting Shopping on Sundays After Union Push
- Employers warn the restriction may eliminate 100,000 jobs
- PM aide Kowalczyk sees chance for ruling party draft support
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Poland’s largest trade union submitted a draft bill to parliament restrict retail trade on Sundays, rejecting warnings from employers’ groups that such regulation would eliminate a quarter of the 400,000 jobs at shopping centers across the country.
The Solidarnosc union collected more than half a million signatures, or five times more than required to submit a bill to parliament, for a draft law that would force shopping centers and supermarkets to shut on Sundays, while allowing retail stores at gas stations, train and bus stops, airports, hospitals and schools to remain open.