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What are regulations for Easter trading? [OT]
"Geronimo W. Christ Esq" wrote in message ... Who gets to say what is "religiously important" anyway ? I could set up my Church of Arse and declare that all seven days of the week are religious important and demand legislation to keep everyone out of the shops ? I thought they'd already done that - except they called it the Labour Party? -- Noel Paton |
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Because many of those "silly people" would have to work on a day that is religously important to them. WTF is the problem with many shoppers? Why can't they cope if the shops are going to be shut for twenty four hours? Never ceases to amaze me the panic that gets into people when the big shops shut for a day or the sheer hysterical buying if they shut for 2 days. You would think some people are stocking up to try and see themselves through a nuclear winter. The intelligence of the average UK shopper seems more than a little suspect at times. The mere hint of a possible scarcity of anything they will go and clear the shelves regardless of wether they need it or not. |
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Who gets to say what is "religiously important" anyway ? I could set up
my Church of Arse and declare that all seven days of the week are religious important and demand legislation to keep everyone out of the shops ? You could but England is a religious state - religion and the state have not been separated. The state has an official religion its C of E. So your church would not be the official religion. |
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It's not important to me, so why should I lose out, why shouldn't I be allowed to work that day? You can go and work somewhere that opens all day everyday regardless. If you really do work for a shop that isn't allowed to trade on a couple of days a year. Then you knew of the laws applying when you took the job, if you didn't your ignorance of the applicable laws is not our problem. |
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"RiTSo" wrote in message . uk... Sparks wrote: :: It's 3000 square feet, not metres! : I did wonder where there is a shop that was 3 Kilometres wide and : long!! 3km x 3km = 9000 square metres |
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me wrote: "RiTSo" wrote in message . uk... Sparks wrote: :: It's 3000 square feet, not metres! : I did wonder where there is a shop that was 3 Kilometres wide and : long!! 3km x 3km = 9000 square metres Wrong again! |
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"SteveH" wrote in message ... David Marshall wrote: In article , Richard Colton wrote: Because many of those "silly people" would have to work on a day that is religously important to them. You assume that unlimited Sunday trading would mean that shopworkers were forced to work on days that had significance to them. That is not the case, even now: http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/...dTimeOff/Worki ngHoursAndTimeOffArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10028516&chk=plRNsk If you believe the Sunday 'opt out' actually offers some level of protection to the average retail worker, then you're sadly mistaken. Due to the alarmingly low rates of union membership (and a totally spineless main union) there is, in practice, very little Sunday opt-out protection within the industry. FWIW, I once made noises about signing the opt-out when I was a deputy manager for Safeway, only for my boss to tell me he'd have to reconsider my suitability for the role..... He would then be acting illegally had he done so. Had he not found in your favour you would have had every right to take him and Safeway to court/tribunal. You do not need a union for that. MC |
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:46:33 +0100, Graham Murray
wrote: Andy writes: ISTR that Xmas and Easter were the two days when large shops had to close. Is this true? ISTR that there used to be 2 days in the year when all shops, including Newsagents (hence no newspapers on those days), were closed. These were Christmas day and Good Friday. So why (and when) did it change so that Easter Sunday rather then Good Friday was the 'taboo' day for opening? Don't remember that at all. I can remember the banks opening on Good Friday, and the supermarkets covering up all the booze after some time in the afternoon, and I think opening it up again at 6-00 pm. DG |
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