According to traders’ estimates, the movement in the market in the first week of the sales is sluggish, but the estimate is that tourism will give a significant boost.
Open can be the shops, tomorrow, Sunday July 17, in the context of summer sales.
In the context of the legislation, the operation of shops is optional and allowed from 11 in the morning to 8 in the evening, while with regard to staff remuneration it is provided that: if staff work on Sunday is limited to work up to 5 hours, employers do not have obligation to grant another rest day, but they must pay the corresponding hourly wages for the work provided with a 75% surcharge.
According to the estimates of traders the movement in the market, the first week of sales is subdued but the estimate is that tourism should give a significant boost.
For their part, the trade employees complain about the Sunday operation of the shops.
As the Federation of Private Employees of Greece states among others: “With the start of the summer sales, on Sunday July 17 the shops will be open for one more Sunday. Retail businesses will remain open because they are supposed to “hope to attract consumers and turnover” in an environment of extreme precision and dramatically reduced consumption due to the rapidly shrinking purchasing power of society. The Sunday operation of commercial stores has proved to be useless-unsanitary-expensive and ultimately ineffective as a whole for the world of commerce”
Also, the federation states in its announcement that “it sets as a first priority, the signing of a sectoral collective agreement in trade, which will contribute to the strengthening of workers’ incomes, to work with reserved rights and will play an important role for social stability, the resilience of businesses”.
In his statements, the president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, Yannis Hatzitheodosiou, notes that: “Tourism will undoubtedly give a significant boost to the market of the areas that attract tourists, however the hundreds of local markets in the country are based on the consumption potential of their residents. And these are very limited.
It is therefore necessary to substantially support citizens’ income, with measures such as the reduction of VAT on basic necessities and the Excise Tax on fuel, in order to give households a breather and “space” for other markets as well, thus stimulating the turnover of the stores, not only during the sales period”.
For his part, the vice-president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, Nikos Koyoumtsis, stated in his statements that the market is moving at sluggish levels despite the fact that we are going through a sales period.
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