Rejected petition Close restaurants on Christmas day

Recently a petition has started to stop shops opening on boxing day. We want to stop restaurants serving food on Christmas Day. Why should millions of people spend their Christmas day cooking for and serving others? Offices shut, shops shut, banks and all other non-essential businesses shut.

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In New Zealand, restaurants do not open on Christmas day. People spend time with their families and friends at home, including serving staff.
In an ideal world everybody would have the day off...but there are people that are needed every single day, for example life saving medical staff, police etc.
Some privately owned pubs prefer to open to share drinks with friends. But no staff member should HAVE to spend up to 16 hours cooking for and serving others and miss their own Christmas.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/172531

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Date submitted 17 November 2016
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