Italy: 50,000 jobs may be lost if Sunday shopping is curbed

Italian supermarket chains have forecast tens of thousands of job losses if the country’s populist government goes ahead with plans to curtail Sunday trading.

Luigi Di Maio, the deputy prime minister, said the government would introduce measures limiting Sunday trading in large shopping centres before the end of the year in an attempt to preserve family traditions.

Sunday opening hours were liberalised in 2012 by the then prime minister, Mario Monti, in an effort to prompt economic growth, despite pressure from the Catholic church, unions and small businesses to maintain the traditional day of rest.

The Guardian

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