For Women in Adria, the vice dean said that he agrees that non-working Sundays are bad for entrepreneurs, especially small traders who usually have only one sales outlet.
“The ban means they don’t have any traffic that day, unlike chains with more outlets. When one does not work, the others work and increase traffic due to closed competition,” he explained. “The law spills traffic and earnings from small to large. That’s why this law is a blow to small businesses. Small traders are on the brink of profitability, and bans can drive them into bankruptcy. Work is prohibited on 36 Sundays, and there are also 13 holidays in addition to Easter, of which, on average, two falls on Sundays. If all days had the same turnover, a small shop would lose 14% of turnover annually. As customers of smaller stores will shop in open stores, and there is hardly any loyalty to small stores, the traffic loss is about 10%. Earlier research showed that in previous years, about 7.5% of the entire workforce worked on Sundays, and in that number, 2/3 were police officers, soldiers, doctors, and all those not covered by the Law. So, the Trade Act applies only to about 2.5% of all our workers, and there are also some male workers, so women in shops make up about 2% of the working population.”
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