The Act gradually introducing the Sunday trading ban came into force on 1 March 2018. From 2020, the trading ban only applies on seven Sundays a year: the last Sunday in January, April , in June and August, as well as on the Sunday before Easter and on the two following Sundays before Christmas.
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Next Sunday, August 25, will be commercial. The next trading Sundays this year are 15 and 22 December. The act restricting trading on Sundays provides for a catalog of 32 exclusions. The ban does not include, among others: postal activity, if the income from this activity is at least 40 percent. income from the sale of a particular resource. Furthermore, it does not apply to sweets, ice cream parlours, liquid fuel stations, flower shops, newspapers or cafes.
Penalties for breaking the ban
The penalty for breaking the Sunday trading ban is PLN 1,000 to PLN 100,000. PLN fine, and if there is a persistent violation of the rules – a penalty of deprivation of liberty. Currently, a draft amendment to the rules, written by Poland 2050, is in the Sejm, allowing two shopping Sundays per month. According to him, work on Sunday would be entitled to double wages, and the employer would be obliged to declare the employee a day off six days before or six days after the Sunday working day.
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In June, the project was submitted to parliamentary committees; Earlier, the Sejm rejected the motion of PiS and BP Left to reject it in the first reading.
2024-08-25 07:15:32
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