Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!clarke 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 Article-I.D.: utcsri.3786 Posted: Sat Dec 13 22:31:56 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 00:25:50 EST References: <2819@watdcsu.UUCP> <708@looking.UUCP> <3756@utcsri.UUCP> <1445@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) Distribution: can Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 23 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 {allegra,cornell,decvax,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!clarke