Text file: 10619.txt
author: Plohl
downvotes: 30
end consideration date: 2019-12-31
id: '10619'
number comments: 70
number views: 1275
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology\nWe would\
  \ like to start by clarifying that the restrictions currently in place on working\
  \ on Sundays and public holidays are the result of an agreement between the social\
  \ partners.  \nThey have agreed in the new Collective Agreement of the Slovenian\
  \ Trade and Commerce Sector on Sunday work in 42. Article 42 of the Collective Labour\
  \ Agreement provides that a worker may work a maximum of 2 Sundays per month, but\
  \ no more than 20 Sundays per year, and that no work on Sundays and public holidays\
  \ may be imposed on a worker who is caring for a child under the age of three, except\
  \ on the basis of the worker's express written request, which may be revoked at\
  \ any time by the worker, to a female worker during pregnancy and for one year after\
  \ childbirth, or for as long as she is breastfeeding, and to a parent worker who\
  \ has a seriously ill child or a child with a physical or mental handicap and who\
  \ lives alone with the child and is responsible for its upbringing and care.\n April\
  \ - Day of Resistance against the Occupier, 1 May - Labour Day, 2 May - Labour Day,\
  \ Pentecost Sunday, 25 June - National Day, 15 August - Assumption Day, 31 October\
  \ - Reformation Day, 1 November - Day of Remembrance of the Dead, 25 December -\
  \ Christmas Day, 26 December - Independence and Unity Day. Shops are therefore closed\
  \ on all these public holidays and other statutory public holidays (15 in total),\
  \ with exceptions (e.g. family businesses, pharmacies, retail outlets, bakeries,\
  \ etc.).\nThe new collective agreement also increases the allowance that workers\
  \ receive for working on Sundays. This is 100% of the worker's gross basic salary\
  \ or the corresponding hourly rate, but not less than \u20AC6.05/hour. For work\
  \ on public holidays and statutory public holidays, the supplement shall be 250\
  \ %.\nThe employers and the trade unions have therefore reached their own agreement\
  \ on working on Sundays and public holidays. Since social dialogue is, in our view,\
  \ the most appropriate way of dealing with such issues, the Ministry considers that,\
  \ for once, no legislative measures are necessary in this area."
response date: 2020-01-27
response due date: null
sent date: 2019-11-30
title: Shop closures on Sundays
upvotes: 126
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/10619
