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Article: France gears up -- slowly -- for more Sunday store-opening
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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PARIS -- France is taking a leisurely August attitude to a new
law that shakes up the country's traditional devotion to Sunday
rest.
Starting today, more stores have the legal right to open, a step
taken by the government in hopes of boosting employment and soaking
up added tourist dollars.
But it's a complicated measure, full of unresolved details that
need to be worked out by employers and workers, many of whom are
gone for France's sacrosanct, monthlong August holiday break. And in
reality, many shops that wanted to get around century-old rules and
sell their wares on Sunday have already found ways to do so.
Shoppers on Paris' streets were unconvinced that the new law
would make them ...