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From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Sunday openings
Message-ID: <3786@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 22:31:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 22:31:56 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 00:25:50 EST
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Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
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Summary: 

In article <1445@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>Jim, if the problem is really "fairness to the people who'd work Sundays",
>then let the provincial government legislate that stores open on
>Sunday may not use their full-time employees. Only business proprietors
>or partners, designated shareholders (>10% ownership in the business
>and their families) and part-time employees may be used. That way,
>no employee is "forced" to work Sundays (even if they want to!), and
>what Sunday openings there are will reduce unemployment.

This sounds like a brilliant idea.  Surely there must be something wrong
with it; so few simple solutions to non-scientific problems are valid...:-)
But *I* can't see anything wrong with it.  The usual solution has been
to give people the legal right to designate one (or presumably two?) days
of holiday every week, or some variation; and the obvious problem is that
the spirit of such a rule would be too easy to break without breaking the
letter.

This suggestion, however, is compellingly nifty.  Congratulations!
-- 

Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
              (416) 978-4058
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