Submitted on Thursday 17th November 2016
Rejected on Monday 21st November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Close restaurants on Christmas day
Recently a petition has started to stop shops opening on boxing day. We want to stop restaurants serving food on Christmas Day. Why should millions of people spend their Christmas day cooking for and serving others? Offices shut, shops shut, banks and all other non-essential businesses shut.
In New Zealand, restaurants do not open on Christmas day. People spend time with their families and friends at home, including serving staff.
In an ideal world everybody would have the day off...but there are people that are needed every single day, for example life saving medical staff, police etc.
Some privately owned pubs prefer to open to share drinks with friends. But no staff member should HAVE to spend up to 16 hours cooking for and serving others and miss their own Christmas.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/172531
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