Hungarian Business ASSN Warns Against Keeping Shops Closed On Sundays
- 3 Nov 2014 3:00 AM
The Hungarian Association of Shopping Centres (MBSZ) has given warning that a proposal to restrict retailers’ opening times on Sundays would have serious consequences. KDNP, a member of the governing alliance, said earlier that an initiative to prohibit all but family-owned retailers from doing businesses on Sundays was “in line with the expectations of most people, both on the part of employees and consumers”.
The MBSZ said in a statement that such restrictions would force businesses to lay off at least 35,000 people, while cutting sales and revenue from sales tax.
Catering businesses would be especially hard hit, it added. The MBSZ said applying the restriction only to businesses bigger than 400 square metres was discriminative.
György Vámos, head of the National Trade Association OKSZ, gave a lower estimate, of 15,000-20,000, for the number of people that could be laid off as a result of keeping shops closed on Sunday.
Vámos cited earlier representative surveys which showed that about half of the respondents supported shops being open on Sundays.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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