Poll: Sunday trading laws

Scrap Sunday trading law?

  • Scrap

    Votes: 276 63.6%

  • Do not scap

    Votes: 106 24.4%

  • Not bothered

    Votes: 52 12.0%
  • Total voters
    434
As a shift worker I agree that the shops should be open every day 9 til closing. The suday thing is a throw back to religious issues. So as an agnostic person this doesn't play a part in my life, and in a huge amount of the populations lives. Its antiquated and should be overturned.
 
I think that offices should be open on a saturday and sunday aswell, not just shops. Pain when you try to call to get something sorted only to be told monday - friday, 9 -5.
 
I suspect most people want to scrap the law are office workers, who do 9-5 mon-fri.

I used to work in retail and I am for the current law. It gave us a bit of time off during social hours.
 
scottomus0 said:
Um, everybody in Retail?
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I think that was his point. So many people already work 6 hours on sunday (not far off the full 9-5 anyway) that the laws might as well just vanish. Just because a shop is allowed to stay open on a Sunday doesn't mean it will. People won't be forced to work that day. If a shop can afford to be open on Sunday, it can afford to take on new sunday staff (something a lot of students/young people would probably cherish)
 
desires said:
I think that was his point. So many people already work 6 hours on sunday (not far off the full 9-5 anyway) that the laws might as well just vanish.
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ok. so lets put the vote to the people who it would make work those extra hours. Not to the people who want to stay in bed till 4-5 on a sunday and then go shopping :rolleyes:
 
Longbow said:
I suspect most people want to scrap the law are office workers, who do 9-5 mon-fri.

I used to work in retail and I am for the current law. It gave us a bit of time off during social hours.
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Indeed, It must suck getting a **** wage working in retail then on top of that the possibility that if you are a parent, missing out on time with your children and having to pay for that pleasure.
 
Should be scrapped for the retail sector, there are only benefits so far as i can see.

The employees are mainly teenagers or people in education, this gives them (us) more hours to work, thus more money earned, thus less money needed to be borrowed from the government.
The day of rest/family argument is nulled.....how many teenagers do you know who enjoy spending sundays with parents? :p

I wanted to go and buy car polish today, but i couldn't because the shops were shut. there are loads of people who would go shopping on a sunday.

Do disadvantages really exist for this topic?
 
Only for those who work in retail on sundays already that don't appreciate the fact that they should be expected to work all of sunday so that those who don't can have a lazy day and shop at their leisure.
 
Of all the "retail" places I visit, the one which strikes me with the strangest opening times are banks. Everyone needs to go to the bank once in a while, and yet the ones closest to my parents shut are open after I start work, closed before I finish, closed for lunch (in this day and age, really!?) and shut Saturday & Sunday. It's not so bad now that I live in the city and there are a few that are open on Saturdays, but it's a royal pain.

When was at university, I worked in a supermarket and I was quite happy that we were open on a Sunday until 10 - I worked late shifts Saturday & Sunday for 6 hours per day. If we had shut at say 4 or 6 rather than 10, then that would've eaten into my hangover recovery period!
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
Shame you can't see your family if shops were open for longer hours on a Sunday.

Oh wait, you still can. :rolleyes:
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I take by your comment your still young.

30 years ago I loved seeing my nan,grandad,uncles on a Sunday for a family meal,nowadays a lot of people work including me.
 
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