Senate committees rejected the amendments regarding Christmas Eve: On Tuesday, the Senate committees for National Economy and Innovation, as well as Family, Senior and Social Policy voted on amendments from the Left to the project a free Christmas Eve. The joint committees voted 7 to 4 rejected two corrections Magdalena Biejat.
First Amendment was to make the act effective on the day of its announcement in the Journal of Laws. This would give us a chance to have a free Christmas Eve already this year. The act in its current wording is scheduled to enter into force only on February 1, 2025. Biejat w second rejected amendment she proposed that before Christmas Eve, just like now, there would still only be two shopping Sundays. However, it was not possible to undo the change that introduces a third trading Sunday in December. – Christmas Eve is a day expected as a day off by the whole society. But it cannot be introduced at the expense of trade workers – they will have to work off this Christmas Eve – said Alfred Bujara from NSZZ “Solidarność”.
Minister of Labor with an idea: Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, present at the committee meeting, presented to the senators compromise. She proposed that the employee, regardless of the number of Sundays worked, should have a guaranteed wage every other Sunday off From work.
More You can read about the evaluation of the free Christmas Eve project in the article “Storm over a free Christmas Eve. Entrepreneurs are furious, trade unionists are angry. 'We weren't given a chance'.”
Source: PAP Business