April 27 is a shopping Sunday
This Sunday you can do shopping in stores. The next commercial Sundays are: June 29, August 31, December 7, December 14 and December 21.
Trade ban on Sunday in Poland
The Act gradually introducing a ban on trade on Sundays entered into force on March 1, 2018. From 2020, the ban on trade does not apply only on seven Sundays in the year: the last Sundays of January, April, June and August, as well as on Sunday before Easter, and after the amendment also three consecutive Sundays preceding Christmas.
Trade on Sunday – who is not banned?
The act limiting trade on Sunday provides for a 32 exclusion catalog. The ban does not include, among others postal activity, if revenues from this activity constitute at least 40 percent. revenues from the sale of a given facility. In addition, it does not apply in confectioneries, ice cream parlors, liquid fuel stations, in florists, in press stores or in cafes.
Penalties for breaking the ban on Sunday trade
For breaking the trade ban on Sundays, it is threatened with PLN 1,000 to PLN 100,000. PLN penalty, and with persistent violation of the regulations – the penalty of restriction of liberty.
Christmas Eve as a day off
On February 1, the amendment entered into force establishing on December 24 a day off for all employees, including employees of commercial facilitiesfor which so far – in accordance with the Act on Sunday and holiday trade – Christmas Eve was a working day until 2pm. From this year, three Sundays preceding Christmas Eve will be commercial. The novella also predicts that in December a trade employee will not be able to work more than two Sundays.
At the end of December last year President Andrzej Duda decided to refer the Free Christmas Eve act to the Constitutional Tribunal in the following mode. The president’s reservations relate to the introduction of the third, additional Sunday working in December for trade workers. (PAP)
