The Act gradually introducing a ban on trade on Sundays entered into force on March 1, 2018. From 2020, trade ban does not apply only on seven Sundays in the year: the last Sundays of January, April, June and August, as well as on Sunday before Easter, and after the amendment also three consecutive Sundays preceding Christmas.
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So far, in 2025, stores were open on Sundays on January 26, April 13, April 27 and June 29. Sunday, August 10 is not a day when all commercial outlets are open. Polish women and Poles will not be able to do regularly on August 31, when the statutory commercial Sunday falls.
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In the aforementioned Act limiting trade on Sundays, the 32 exclusion catalog is provided. The ban does not include, among others postal activity, if revenues from this activity constitute at least 40 percent. revenues from the sale of a given facility. In addition, it does not apply in confectioneries, ice cream parlors, liquid fuel stations, in florists, in press stores or in cafes.
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For breaking the trade ban on Sundays, it is threatened with PLN 1,000 to PLN 100,000. PLN penalty, and with persistent violation of the regulations – the penalty of restriction of liberty.
On February 1, the amendment entered into force providing for the establishment of on December 24 a day off for all employees, including employees of commercial facilities, for which – in accordance with the Act on restriction of trade on Sunday and holidays – Christmas Eve was a working day until 2pm. From this year, three Sundays preceding Christmas Eve will be commercial. The novella also predicts that in December a trade employee will not be able to work more than two Sundays.
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At the end of December last year President Andrzej Duda decided to refer the Free Christmas Eve act to the Constitutional Tribunal in the following mode. The president's reservations relate to the introduction of the third, additional Sunday working in December for trade workers.
