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Grekodom reports:
Economy Minister, Dimitris Papadimitriou, signed the new law that allows the voluntary operation of shops on Sundays.
The new law 4427/2017 allows for retail stores in central Athens, Thessaloniki, and tourist areas to be open on Sundays for six months of the year during tourist season. The opening of retail stores on Sundays is a prerequisite of Greece's bailout program.
The Federation of Private Sector Employees has called a 24-hour strike to protest the decision while the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) said it will appeal it to the Council of State.
The ministerial decision determines, in great detail, specific areas where the shops can open on Sundays.
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:07PM (1 child)
Sunday trading was never illegal in Scotland and when I was a teenager I worked part time in a supermarket. Sunday used to be paid at double time and the shop opened later and closed earlier on a Sunday but at the age of 16 I really used to appreciate getting 6 hours work on a Sunday. The only problem was, they gave me lots of Sunday shifts and I was very tired as a result and my school work suffered. My parents were unsympathetic.
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday July 26 2017, @09:46PM
Ah, double-time for Sundays! I had a bit of that in the decade or so after the 1994 act for England and Wales, and (for various reasons) was in the rota for every Sunday too. I was glad of the extra money.
Now that Sunday trading is so commonplace (in England and Wales), very few companies offer double time or even time-and-a-half for Sundays. There's still the legal right for employees to formally opt out of working Sundays, though.