Sunday, bloody Sunday

Draft amendments to labour regulations drawn up by politicians from the League of Polish Families (LPR) political party proposed a ban on trading on Sundays and national holidays in all stores except for low-price markets and small outlets selling foodstuffsThe draft was not received well by the Special Parliamentary Committee for Codification Change, which rejected the idea on March 15th this year. This was not, however, the only bill aimed at restricting the business activities of large stores, in particular those of supermarkets and hypermarkets. For many years, representatives of certain political groups have been saying in public that there is a need to introduce more stringent restrictions on the locations of shopping facilities with large retail floor space, known commonly as supermarkets or hypermarkets. These aspirations manifested themselves in a bill submitted by a group of MPs in December 2005 entitled the ‘Large-Scale Shopping Facilities Act’. For the whole of