Economy. Events: the Shops Will Be Able to Open Three Additional Sundays Until Christmas
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The Minister of Trade, Serge Papin, announced on Monday that the Prefects will be able to authorize three additional openings on Sundays by Christmas. The measure aims to help the traders affected by the violence on the margins of the protests against expensive life. The chambers of commerce welcome the initiative, while the CGT opposes it. - Trade affected by the violence: the government wants to facilitate openings on Sundays until Christmas (…
On Thursday, the government had already announced that it was encouraging mayors and prefects to allow exceptional Sunday openings, demanded by professionals until Christmas.
Minister Serge Papin will ask the prefects to authorize derogations allowing traders to open three additional Sundays until the end of the year.
In an attempt to counter the impact of the protests on business activity, the government intends to allow more Sunday openings by the end of the year
The executive will remind the prefects that they can allow three Sunday derogatory openings, without consulting the social partners, and encourage them to organise "consultations" to go beyond.
The mayors already have their hands on the opening of the shops twelve Sundays a year, and the prefects can allow three more Sunday openings derogatory, without consulting the social partners. According to the Minister of Commerce, "3,000 stores" were hit by violence on 17 October and "nearly 400" were looted.
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