But it's normally filled with old gits who could go during the week.This is a perfect advert for what I have been suggesting. Who wants to be dragged around a garden center or B&Q when you could be doing this?
But it's normally filled with old gits who could go during the week.This is a perfect advert for what I have been suggesting. Who wants to be dragged around a garden center or B&Q when you could be doing this?
You really need to chill mate. I have absolutely no idea why my POV should elicit such an angry response from you.Stop clutching your pearls dear and no I don't need a thesis on the reason.
You mentioned Brick Lane market!! Who was there? People with stalls working?
I find your myopic view on those that make your life easier unpleasant. You're roughly the same age as me and the only difference in reality is shops are open, all other jobs have remained.
Mines didn't shut, foundries didn't, bakeries didn't you can carry on. Easy examples that can't be disputed. You have stated previously the majority of people did and those that have to work are lower paid. That just isn't the case.
I'm neither angry nor a mate. I'm a long time poster nothing else.You really need to chill mate. I have absolutely no idea why my POV should elicit such an angry response from you.
You are missing the point of what I have been saying (again!). I said I felt it right that shop workers should get a choice in their contracts that allows them not to work Sundays because shops are not frontline services.
I am not against Sunday Trading (personally though I like to relax on a Sunday, I like the quiet).
In fact, just a quick google shows they do actually have special rights exactly along the lines I was saying they should …
Special rights for shop workers and betting industry
If you work in a shop or in the betting industry (either at a betting shop open to the public or a bookmaker at a sports venue) you have special rights.
You can opt out of having to work on Sunday even if your contract says you have to. Your employer has to tell you about this right within two months of hiring you.
These rights don't apply if you're employed to work on Sundays only.”
Argument over.
Not all workers get extra time and a half (I used to in the NHS and Social care environment) but …
“Getting paid more for working on Sundays
It's a matter for you and your employer as to whether you're paid more for working on a Sunday. There are no statutory rights in this area, so it depends on your contract.
Many businesses choose to reward employees who work outside normal working hours. Some pay time-and-a-half or double time, while others give extra time off.”
Sunday work
All kinds of businesses operate on Sundays. Shops and leisure businesses are obvious examples, but wherever you work, you might be asked to work on Sundays. It is important to know your rights when it comes to Sunday work.www.nidirect.gov.uk
Ps sellers in Brick lane market were there by choice as they were nearly all one-man bands selling their own secondhand stuff in a cash economy. They didn’t have an employer waving a contract over their head, they arrived in their vans, unloaded stuff onto tables or the ground and passers by would make them an offer. Picked up some good bargains too
What is interesting and of particular worry is the traditional high street is on its arse. Full of coffee shops and charity shops. Within a few years they'll be gone. Gone will be the days of a Sunday when the town centre was full of bored people window shopping..
Jeez. I never had you down as such a reactionary little wannabe dictator.I'd rather people did idle away their Sundays instead of having a stressful life where the only opportunity to squeeze in a trip to IKEA is Sunday.
No, and that's quite a weird leap. I'm married with two children, one grandchild, one elderly mother and one elderly father-in-law who all need looking after to greater or lesser degrees - even the grown-up kids . Plus I'm still working full time. I do not want a day of enforced contemplative, even selfish idleness, and to try and cram everything into say a Saturday.Let me guess. Unmarried?
Good morning everyone! @PILTDOWN MAN I still here, I made it!Yes. These don’t operate in Germany on Sundays. I’m not aware of wide spread famine every Sunday; it works.
As it happens, it’s a nationwide public holiday today and everything is shut. If I don’t post tomorrow because I have starved to death you can have the last laugh; my funeral wishes are in the “Music at your wake” thread. It will be a weekday, I wouldn’t want to deprive @Lenny Rider of a Sunday at home….I hope you can make it.
It depends on the size of the shop, and the big ones can only open 6 hours on a Sunday. For most that’s 10 until 4, but for some it will be 11 until 5, like IKEA I think.Tesco has been trading on Sunday in Faversham for at least 10 years. I presume everything shuts up your way because there is no demand.
I presume R2 is discussing allowing longer opening hours (I think most large scale 'trading' has to stop at 4.00 pm on Sunday, albeit smaller convenience stores stay open later).