Over the past few months, a large group of large retail chains in Poland have acquired employees for their own shops the status of a post office, which allowed it to open every Sunday. However, at the beginning of February 2022, an amendment came into force, tightening the provisions on ban on trade on Sundays and public holidays. Now it is not enough to become a post office anymore – you have to show that the store at least 40 percent. revenues from postal services.
Retailers began to analyze the new regulations and look for more “gates”. As a result, not post offices are starting to emerge, but bus stations and reading rooms. You can learn more about it read here.
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These actions were strongly commented on by the head of NSZZ Solidarność, Piotr Duda. In an interview for “Voice of Greater Poland“he stated that” it is not even evading the law anymore, but laughing at the legislator and spitting in the face. The same actors in their countries are exemplary employers – if there is a law, they obey it, not care about it. And here? For me, these are ordinary criminals. “He announced an appeal to the Chief Labor Inspector for control and maximum penalties.” In fact, the Polish state should withdraw their license. It is a mockery and a mockery of the legislator restricting trade on Sundays “- he noted.
He also proposed to hold a referendum in Poland on free Sundays for all. “To all those who say that we are taking their freedom away, I say: let’s hold a referendum in Poland and decide whether Sunday should be free or a normal day work. But for everyone, not only for trade. If they want trade to operate on Sunday, let there also be banks or public offices. I also don’t have time to run errands during the week and I’d love to go to the communications department on Sundays. ”
Trading Sundays 2022 – what are the exceptions to the act?
No trade it entered into force on Sunday four years ago. This is one of the most important projects of the PiS government. Initially, the regulations were partially in force and only one Sunday a month was non-commercial. Every year, the law has been tightened up, and the current regulations are the climax. From 2020, the law provides for only seven shopping sundays in year. Their dates are related to events that increase traffic in stores, such as holidays and the end or start of the school year. Trading Sundays in 2022 are also April 10 and 24, June 26, August 28, and December 11 and December 18, 2022.
Pursuant to the Act, they may now be open on non-trading Sundays shops:
- at liquid fuel stations;
- in commercial establishments where the predominant activity is flower trade;
- in pharmacies and pharmacy outlets;
- in animal health facilities;
- in commercial establishments where the main activity is trading in souvenirs or devotional items;
- in commercial establishments where the main activity is trade in the press, public transport tickets, tobacco products, coupons for games of chance and mutual wagering;
- in post offices within the meaning of Art. 3 point 15 of the Act of 23 November 2012 – Postal Law (Journal of Laws of 2020, items 1041 and 2320), in which the predominant activity is the provision of postal services;
- in commercial establishments in hotel establishments;
- in commercial establishments in establishments operating in the field of culture, sport, education, tourism and leisure;
- in commercial establishments organized solely for the purposes of festivals, fairs and other occasional, thematic or sports and recreational events, also when they are located in market halls;
- in commercial establishments in health care units of medical entities and other health care facilities intended for people whose health condition requires 24-hour or all-day health services;
- in commercial establishments at railway stations within the meaning of the Act of December 16, 2010 on public collective transport (Journal of Laws of 2020, items 1944 and 2400), in ports and marinas within the meaning of the Act of December 20, 1996 on sea ports and harbors (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 491) and in ports and harbors within the meaning of the Act of December 21, 2000 on inland navigation (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1863) – in the scope related to the direct service of travelers;
- for the sale of fish at fish farms, from a fishing vessel and from commercial establishments dealing exclusively with the receipt of fish products;
- in commercial establishments at airports within the meaning of the Act of 3 July 2002 – Aviation Law (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1970 and of 2021, items 784 and 847);
- in free zones;
- in means of transport, on ships, as well as on commercial sea ships, aircraft, oil rigs and other offshore hydrotechnical structures;
- on the premises of penitentiary units;
- in commercial establishments on the premises of military units;
- in online stores and on online platforms;
- when trading goods from vending machines;
- in the case of agricultural retail trade within the meaning of the Act of 25 August 2006 on food and nutrition safety (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 2021);
- in pharmaceutical wholesalers;
- in the period from June 1 to September 30 of each calendar year – in commercial establishments trading only in agricultural machinery, spare parts for these machines, consumables for agricultural machinery, materials used during the current operation of agricultural machinery or tools for replacing spare parts in agricultural machinery;
- in the case of trade in flowers, bouquets, wreaths and candles at cemeteries;
- in funeral homes;
- in commercial establishments where the trade is carried out by an entrepreneur who is a natural person only in person, on his own behalf and on his own account;
- in bakeries, confectioneries and ice cream parlors, the main activity of which is trade in bakery and confectionery products;
- in commercial establishments where the predominant activity is catering.
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