There are still three trading Sundays left in December in 2025: December 7, 14 and 21. This is an unusual solution, because previously shopping Sundays were spread evenly throughout the year, usually one a month.
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This change results from new regulations that entered into force on February 1, 2025 and established Christmas Eve as a public holiday. In return, consumers gained the opportunity to shop on three consecutive Sundays before the holidays.
The new regulations not only change the arrangement of shopping Sundays, but also introduce restrictions on work on these days.
According to the regulations, each trade employee can work a maximum of two out of three December trading Sundays. Thanks to this, people employed in stores will have at least one Sunday off before the holidays. It is a compromise between customer needs and employee rights.
A surprise on the calendar. We are facing three trading Sundays in a row
A draft amendment to the act on the ban on Sunday trading, submitted by MPs from Poland 2050 – Third Way, is being processed in the Sejm. It assumes the introduction of at least two trading Sundays a month – the first and third – and additional days before holidays.
The project also provides for double pay for work on Sunday and the obligation to designate a day off within six days before or after work on Sunday.
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It is not known whether the proposed changes will be adopted. The bill is currently in committee and waiting for its third reading in the Sejm.
The act gradually introducing the Sunday trading ban entered into force on March 1, 2018. From 2020, the trading ban does not apply only on seven Sundays a year: the last Sundays of January, April, June and August, on the Sunday before Easter, and after the amendment also on the three subsequent Sundays before Christmas.
