Show threadJdeBPMay 3

@wild1145

They can nowadays go and rescue the shipwrecked whisky even though it is a Sunday? No!

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Northern Ireland's legislation on the subject still dates, in part, from 1695.

Legally, the retail hours argument is a bit of a red herring when it comes to Sunday Trading/Closing Acts; as working on a Sunday is covered *anyway* by the Employment Rights Act 1996 (EW&S) and weekly rest periods by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (EW&S).

Allowing the establishments to open longer does not by itself diminish employee rights in this regard. Regulations on trading are not the same as regulations on working.

https://legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/11

@PrinceMumbles
#SundayTrading #Scotland #ScottishLaw #UKLaw #WhiskyGalore

The Working Time Regulations 1998

These Regulations implement Council Directive 93/104/EC concerning certain aspects of the organization of working time (O.J. No. L307, 13.12.93, p.18) and provisions concerning working time in Council Directive 94/33/EC on the protection of young people at work (O.J. No. L216, 20.8.94, p.12). The provisions in the latter Directive which are implemented relate only to adolescents (those aged between 15 and 18 who are over compulsory school age); provisions in that Directive relating to children were implemented by the Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998 (S.I.1998/276). Provisions implementing that Directive in relation to adolescents employed on ships are to be included in separate regulations to be made shortly after the date on which these Regulations are made, and adolescents employed on ships are accordingly excluded from the scope of these Regulations (regulation 26).

Show threadsonicJazzMonkeyMay 3

@wild1145 @PrinceMumbles sounds great to me. Then again when I worked in retail many years ago, I was glad my working hours finished at 5pm.

#sundaytrading

Ryan WildMay 3

I'm currently on holiday with @PrinceMumbles and have been enjoying spending some time here in Scotland, though did entirely forget that Scotland unlike everywhere else in the UK does not in fact have Sunday trading laws so the shops are actually open "Normal times" today.

While I don't know if I want to actually get rid of Sunday trading laws elsewhere (As having worked in retail knowing you at least get the Sunday late afternoon / evening off is nice) but it is weird being somewhere in the UK and seeing people leaving supermarkets at 7:30pm on a Sunday!

#Scotland #SundayTrading #UKLaw

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial]Mar 12

Primark confirms all stores in these areas will close for one day

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/shopping-deals/primark-confirms-stores-areas-close-36854313

The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial]Feb 28

Home Bargains to close 560 stores across England and Wales in April for 24 hours

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/home-bargains-close-560-stores-36797531

John ArnoldApr 20, 2025

_The Evening Post_, 21 April 1925:
ON A SUNDAY
SELLING SECTIONS PROHIBITED
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As the result of a judgment delivered by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., to-day, land salesmen may not show prospective buyers over sections for sale on a Sunday.
The case in point was one in which James Francis Egan, of the Dominion Land Investment Company, Wellington, land salesman, was charged with working at his calling on a Sunday.
The prosecution alleged that a breach of the Act had been committed when the defendant showed two prospective buyers over sections for sale at #Johnsonville on a recent Sunday.
“It is clear that the defendant was working at his calling,” said the Magistrate, “which I take it, is his regular work or occupation. As he did this on a Sunday, and in view of a public place, I think he has brought himself within the prohibition of the Police Offences Amendment Act.”
As the prosecution was regarded as a test case, the defendant was ordered to pay costs.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250421.2.85
See also https://teara.govt.nz/en/weekends/page-4

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Sundays #SundayTrading #RealEstate #LawCourts #Wellington

John ArnoldJun 21, 2024
_The Evening Post_, 22 June 1923:
       MAGISTRATE’S COURT
…
  For selling #liquor on a Sunday, John Douglas M‘Kechnie, the licensee of the Thistle Inn Hotel, and Arthur Pike, a porter, were each fined £10 [ca. $1,200 today] and costs. John Casey, Thomas Hodges, and August William Stafford, who had been found on the premises, were each fined £2 [ca. $240] and costs. The Magistrate said that the case was of a serious nature, and if the licensee appeared before the Court again, the question of endorsing his license would have to be considered.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230622.2.124
#OnThisDay #OTD #ThistleInnHotel #PapersPast #Pubs #Alcohol #SundayTrading #TradingHours #LawCourts #NewZealand
Krug FlintheartMar 10, 2024
Minor Sunday speculations. The uptrend is maintained. #SundayTrading #UptrendContinues #marketspeculation