SCOTTISH shops should be closed on New Year’s Day to give workers "a well-deserved break", a major trade union has said.
Retail trade union Usdaw (the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) is supporting calls for large stores and supermarkets to stay closed on New Year’s Day, while also urging the Scottish Government to reverse its opposition to a break for retail staff over the festive period.
The Christmas Day and New Year’s Day Trading (Scotland) Act 2007 prohibits trading in most large shops on Christmas Day and empowers the Scottish Government to stop the opening of those shops on New Year's Day.
