Rejected petition Supermarkets to close on Boxing Day

Retail staff have been working hard throughout the whole pandemic. We are always the ones to work on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, never getting enough time to spend Christmas with our families

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Retail workers especially supermarket workers should be allowed to all have Boxing Day off to have a decent Christmas with their families

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Under current legislation it is up to individual retailers whether to open on bank holidays, although large shops in England and Wales must close on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day.

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Make it legal requirement to close shops on bank holidays INCLUDING BOXING DAY: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324610

We could accept a petition calling for Boxing Day to be added to the list of days on which large businesses must close, if that's what you want to happen.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 6 October 2020
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