France: Shops May Get Option to Open on Sundays

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | July 22nd, 2009 | Trackback

Major cities and some 500 tourist areas may soon see shops given the choice to open on Sunday. Currently many businesses such as grocers, markets, furniture stores and certain shops in major tourist neighborhoods are exempt from a 1906 law that established Sunday as a mandatory day off for workers. But throughout France most shops are closed on Sundays. France’s lower house of congress recently passed legislation that would permit many shops in Paris, Lille, Marseille and about 500 tourist areas elsewhere to open on Sundays. Unions oppose the law because they fear it will erode the tradition of saving Sundays for leisure and family and put pressure on workers to work weekends. To overcome such concerns, the legislation allows workers to refuse Sunday hours and to receive overtime pay.

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