Newsgroups: ont.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.051318.6564@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <656@crk56.bnr.ca> <1989Dec20.121732.19830@me.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 89 05:13:18 GMT

In article <1989Dec20.121732.19830@me.toronto.edu> zougas@me.utoronto.ca (Tom Zougas) writes:
>What if your wife worked Wed-Sun 10-6? When would you spend a
>day with her? I think having at least one day off together is
>more important than a piece of wire.

Then deal with the problem directly:  limit employers' right to insist
that people work on Sunday.  Don't say stores can't open Sundays, just say
that working Sunday can't be a condition of employment for full-time
staff.  Then the staff who value time off more than extra cash will stay
home Sunday, the ones who are desperate for money and would rather work
will work, and part-timers will get hired to make up any shortage.

People keep promoting Sunday closing on the grounds that it has such nice
side effects.  This is silly, given that it also has negative side effects.
It's much better to simply figure out what the desired effects are and deal
with those issues directly.
-- 
1972: Saturn V #15 flight-ready|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
1989: birds nesting in engines | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu