"Free Sundays is what all Catholics, non-Catholics and non-believers
need,” Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, head of the Polish Episcopate, has
said, as quoted by IAR.
He was speaking ahead of a meeting of Poland’s diocesan bishops
during which they plan to discuss issues including a proposal to ban
shopping on Sundays.
In July, a Polish trade union leader rejected calls to relax
a proposal -- filed by his union and several other organisations in
parliament last year -- to ban shopping throughout the country on
Sundays and urged its passage through parliament, according to IAR.
Piotr Duda, leader of the Solidarity trade union, told IAR at the
time that his union did not agree to "any further concessions” amid a
push to restrict trade on Sundays in Poland.
"Four free Sundays [a month], period, end of story," Duda said, as quoted by IAR.
He made the comment after an organisation representing some of
Poland’s retailers suggested that grocery stores across the country
should be allowed to keep their doors open every Sunday, while employees
could be provided with guarantees of at least two free Sundays a month. Polan Radio
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