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Blanchardstown shopping centre 1.5million visits this X mas

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    #92
    hotmail.com
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    The government could introduce a law saying that employers have to pay their employees quadruple on St. Stephens Day if they decide to open.

    They will think twice about opening and it doesn't affect free markets, capitalism and all that. It just ensures that if the shops insist on bringing staff in on Stephens Day, they will be well paid for it. Currently they are not well paid for it.


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    #93
    handlemaster
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    hotmail.com wrote: »
    The government could introduce a law saying that employers have to pay their employees quadruple on St. Stephens Day if they decide to open.

    They will think twice about opening and it doesn't affect free markets, capitalism and all that. It just ensures that if the shops insist on bringing staff in on Stephens Day, they will be well paid for it. Currently they are not well paid for it.


    We have enough regulation as is without adding more just for one day.


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    #94
    Gaspode
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    This is something that we the people have created whereby flocking to shops is considered a normal activity, something to do, somewhere to go when not in work. It's like we've forgotten that there are others things in life besides shopping. Retailers are in the business of making money, nothing else so where's the incentive for them to close their doors when there are people milling around on Dec 26 clamoring to get back into the shops.

    Expecting the government to legislate things better again is not going to work (it rarely ever does), especially since so many people don't see that there is a problem anyway.
    A large number of people (besides retail staff) work all through the Christmas so if the government decided retail workers had to get quadruple pay on Dec 26, then surely everyone else working would be entitled to same? Suddenly you'd have wage bills going through the roof - that would definitely be interfering with business too much.


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