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Liberal-Labour government plans to liberalise Sunday tradingWednesday 10 October 2012 Local councils will soon be free to decide for themselves how often shops can open on Sunday, say sources close to the government formation talks. According to various media reports, the right-wing VVD and Labour party (PvdA) have agreed to liberalise the Sunday trading laws in their coalition pact. The VVD agreed not to extend Sunday trading laws as part of the outgoing coalition in order to appease the fundamentalist Christian party SGP. Gay weddings The negotiators also plan to stop people who don’t accept the idea of gay marriage from becoming local council registrars. The current administration refused to enact a parliamentary motion calling on civil servants who refused to carry out gay weddings to be sacked, again, to appease Christian parties. Labour and the Liberals are nearing the end of three weeks of formal talks on forming a new coalition following the September general election.
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who am i or dutchnews or government or christians to decide for the shopkeepers? i think they should have a Right to Decide for Themselves. By dork | October 10, 2012 8:32 AM About time too... shops are a service industry and should serve their customers. Denying them the right to open on a day when many could take advantage of the opening hours is rediculous. And for those of you who protest about the rights of the shop workers, in the UK, we have had Sunday opening everywhere for all businesses that want to for years and years now ... not an issue. By Mazza B | October 10, 2012 8:45 AM The SGP did not win the election, nor is it going to be in the coalition... so why is policy being created to appease them? By Geuzen76 | October 10, 2012 8:50 AM The American way, all shopping, all the time may profit big business which can vary the staff; small business suffers from inflated hours. By Puck | October 10, 2012 10:03 AM I think the Sunday (or any other day) on and off time should be a subject for negotiation only between the employers and employees. By George | October 10, 2012 1:53 PM There's a lot of appeasing to that fundamentalist group. When you become notorius only for the things you won't accept it becomes hard to take them seriously. By Dr Ponzi | October 10, 2012 1:59 PM Yes, I think shopworkers should have sunday off. What will happen to "family time" if the stores are open 7 days a week? By dee | October 10, 2012 2:11 PM Those laws were put in place solely based on religious beliefs from "god" only knows what century. It should be up to the vendor and the customer whether or not they want to be open and shop.I live in the Randstad and find it very convenient to have stores open on Sunday. It also provides work for more people like teenagers who find it difficult to get work now. By M | October 10, 2012 3:30 PM How about some real democracy? Let people decide for themselves whether or not they want to work Sundays..instead of being always told what to do & when to do it! The church & guv should butt out, or encourage business. Mostly they look for excuses to ruin their own business, sad but true.. (Money versus religion, one and the same.) By The visitor | October 10, 2012 3:55 PM Hi, By Terence Hale | October 10, 2012 4:37 PM Hi It is the title of the article that I want discuss. The problem is the term "liberal". In Dutch it nakes sense but in English it gives the wrong impression. Just a point. By Dutchy Scot | October 10, 2012 4:43 PM Should the rules change, as I believe they should, no one would be forced to work on Sunday. By wilber | October 10, 2012 5:08 PM Wow, welcome to the 21st century! It's about time that ancient religions ceased to control modern business practices. By Valentijn | October 10, 2012 5:20 PM From what I see it's mostly teenagers working in the supermarkets on Sunday and they are only open from 16:00 to 20:00 so an ideal time to earn some extra cash to pay for the study costs that will increase when the student grants are slashed... By Deej | October 10, 2012 7:04 PM Two of the better ideas they've come up with. Our dorp has 1 supermarket open on Sundays for 4 hours, and 12 hours worth of customers pass through it during that time; every aisle is open. Isn't it great what progress can be made when you're not appeasing religious groups? By osita | October 11, 2012 6:20 AM In Mexico, most supermarkets open until 11:00 p.m. every day of the week, and some like Wal-mart 24 hours. This is against the rights of the employees to have normal lives. Also, smaller shops cannot compete and are squeezed out. And it's not the case that employees have the choice to not work on weekends or late hours. Jobs are scarce. The end result is exploitation and it is the job of the government to prevent it. By C. Garcia | October 11, 2012 9:13 AM Allowing shops to stay open as long as they like would benefit people looking for a job, in the cases where the shop is big with several employees and there are shifts. This is undoubtedly good. But what about small shops with few/no employees besides the owners? They may have a harder time competing, and will be forced to sacrifice more of their free time to stay in the business. By kakos | October 11, 2012 11:16 AM Sorry, but this is the year 2012, not 1950. "Family time" can happen on other days than Sunday. Shopowners should be able to decide when their store is open. Not the government! It's there shop! If they want to be closed 1, 2, or 3 days a week, and sacrafice business for family time, then they can do that. It's there business. If they want work everyday (including sunday, one of the 2 days a week for shop owners to make the most revenue) then so be it. Its thier business. By Broseph | October 11, 2012 11:43 AM The decisions the shopowners make decide whether or not thier business is successful. Limits from the government based on a rule that was established in the 70's is absurd for such a "progressive" country that boasts its economic "freedom" and "tollerance" so much. Get with the 21st century! By Broseph | October 11, 2012 11:46 AM Sunday is a day which everyone must be able to be free -- free for their family and friends. Forcing people to work Sundays is simply not correct, there are enough shopping days in the week to satisfy the public demand, we managed quite well before they suggested Sunday trading. Having worked Sundays, I can assure you it is not a pleasure at all, and before you know it, Sundays will become a normal working day for all. Be careful what you wish for? By Dayofrest | October 11, 2012 12:07 PM we have a city centre shop. By nd | October 11, 2012 12:57 PM All business (shops, etc), anywhere, should be allowed to make their own hours and days that they are open. That goes for employees, too... if they choose to work on a Sunday, so be it. Government should stay out of it... it's undemocratic. By Quince | October 11, 2012 3:44 PM I come from Scotland UK, the stores and shops in a Sunday afternoon are open and are always very busy with shoppers, the reason for this is that a Sunday sometimes is the only time a family can do its shopping as on other days the husband or wife are working. By AlMorr | October 11, 2012 4:48 PM
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It is good to keep shops opened on sunday so that the shopping crowd on saturday can ease up else everyone so tense and rush and rude on saturday to get their shopping done. So long as staff are properly compensated for working on alternate sunday, it will do more good than harm.
By ufo | October 10, 2012 8:29 AM