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It seems to me that in our hustle, bustle fast food, convenience store lives, we have forgotten an important aspect of our lives. In days of old, Sundays and holidays were considered to be days of rest, and even if you didn't happen to go to church or you weren't religious, they were days that were spent with families and friends. They were the days that families sat together, talked to each other, visited friends, and read books or otherwise occupied their time.

What if our society went back to that and all the businesses closed down on Sundays? Would that be such a bad thing? I work in retail and I am lucky enough to have a boss who lets me have Sundays off, but I also volunteer to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day so that the people with small children and families coming in from out of town can have that day off.

Do you think it is right for a retail business to ask its employees to work on a recognized holiday like Thanksgiving or Christmas, or should those be sacred days spent with families and friends?

What do you think?

I spent a month in France last summer for school. For the most part, even in Paris, it was like this. Very few things were open on Sunday. Being a semi-tourist, I found this disconcerting since I wanted to do things all of the time. But if you lived in that environment all of the time, I think it would be refreshing. Many families would go to the country where they have small plots of land used for gardening and BBQ-ing. It seemed really nice.

I definately think that retail businesses should respect holidays. Even if they don't give them that certain day off, they should give them another day of choice off. Or, if they do have to work, maybe pay them double time for the inconvenience.

Family is something that gets swept under the rug in the U.S., and I think that should change. Chick-fil-a closes every Sunday, which I think is really great. At least one big-time company recognizes the need to have some family time...

I am lucky enough to work for a local family owned newspaper... very rare these days. We run 6 days per week, we all have Sunday off and Christmas day off, there is no paper on those days. The other holidays there is a paper. Staff is skeleton crew and mostly volunteer staff. Occasionally a new person gets put to work on one of those holidays, however most of us will take there place if we don't have plans and they do.

Those people also get to choose another day off instead.

In India, most of us have holiday on sundays.

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We also get to have our Sunday day off and holidays during Christmas and New Year.