Trade union: shops should close on Sunday afternoons in Hungary

Zoltán Karsai, the chairman of the Trade Union of Commercial Employees (KASZ), spoke about the idea yesterday. He said that opening hours should be reduced in Hungary because of the labour shortage affecting the retail sector. As a result, all shops should close at noon every Sunday.

Index.hu reported about Karsai’s announcement today. He wrote that the sector has been struggling with labour shortage even though employers continuously try to attract new employees with multiple methods. Despite all efforts, they cannot hire the needed number of people. Therefore, the KASZ suggested the reduction of opening hours in Hungary.

As a result, companies would be able to fill the busiest periods with the required workforce. Thanks to that, service quality could be improved, and firms would be able to reduce the workload on the individual employees, he added.

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Therefore, the trade union would like to reduce the opening hours and close shops at noon every Sunday. KASZ believes such a regulation would be beneficial for the employees’ work and private life balance and indirectly every people. Firstly, they will start negotiations with other trade unions of the sector’s workers. They regard it as their final goal to create a regulation applying to all sector employees.