No trade. Biedronka opens stores on Sundays. "People run away on sick leave, throw papers"

Over 200 Biedronka stores have been opened every Sunday for several weeks. This is the result of cooperation between the commercial giant and the state-owned Poczta Polska. And although research shows that Poles are in favor of lifting this restriction, the employees of the insect web have a different opinion.

Some of the Biedronka stores have also been open on Sundays for several weeks
This is the result of cooperation between the retail giant and Poczta Polska
This situation, although supported by Poles, is not positively assessed by some of Biedronka’s employees
People run away on sick leave, throw papers, says a trade union activist about the situation among employees
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– The atmosphere among the employees is simply bad. I have signals that people are on sick leave, throwing papers. They are just scared of this situation, they don’t want to work on Sunday. Nobody arranged it with them. Some of them even say that they feel like a lemon squeezed out of juice. Many single mothers work in the stores, and they complain that how to organize day-to-day care for their toddlers on Sunday? They will not leave them alone, he says in an interview with the Virtual Media portal representative of NSZZ “Solidarność” operating in the company.

The unionist adds that employees often found out that the store they are employed in would be open on Sundays a few days before this fact.

Ladybug open on Sundays

In the last days of July Biedronka informed that already 240 of its stores may be open every Sunday, thanks to an agreement with Poczta Polska, pursuant to which shops became parcel collection points.

Biedronka is not the only chain of stores which, thanks to the “postal exceptional” in the act on the ban on trade, decided to open its outlets on Sundays. It is also used by such chains as: Żabka, ABC, Groszek, Delikatesy Centrum, Lewiatan, Euro Sklep, Carrefour Express, Stokrotka Express, Top Market, Topaz, Chata Polska, Prim Market, selected Polomarket and Intermarche outlets, and even some supermarkets construction Bricomarche.

Plan to seal

In response to the practice of the trade industry, NSZZ “Solidarność” appealed to the ruling team in Poland to tighten the trade ban. He has already reached the Seym bill prepared by PiS MPs assuming that on a non-trading Sunday only those points of contact may be opened in which postal activity generates over 50 percent revenues.

Importantly, the bill has little chance of passing through parliament for the time being, because the Agreement, which was already part of the United Right, raised an objection led by Jarosław Gowin.

In addition, Poles do not want seals – according to a recent study by CBRE, more than half of Poles want the Sunday trade ban lifted. Only one in three wants to maintain.

The TK spoke about the ban on trade

The Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday 27 July about constitutionality of the two challenged provisions regarding the Sunday trading ban, but decided to discontinue the case with regard to the remaining twoon the basis of which the prohibition was established and the exceptions made. These provisions concern the concept of performing work on Sunday and the vacatio legis of provisions defined in the Act.

According to the Confederation Lewiatan both of these provisions had to be assessed as unconstitutional, because they differentiate workers “as to the freedom to work on certain days”.

The act introducing a gradual ban on Sunday trading entered into force on March 1, 2018. From 2020, the trade ban will not apply only on seven Sundays a year. The act on the Sunday trading ban provides for a catalog of 32 exemptions. The prohibition does not include, inter alia, postal activities, does not apply to pastry shops, ice cream parlors, liquid fuel stations, flower shops, newspaper shops or cafes.

For breaking the Sunday trading ban, the risk is from PLN 1,000 to PLN 100,000. PLN fine, and in the case of persistent violation of the Act – the penalty of restriction of liberty.