Liberation Day decision is for money grabbers

Saturday 6th February 2010, 2:59PM GMT.

From Patricia Goncalves.
I AM writing to express my feelings on the subject of Liberation Day. It lands on a Sunday this year, so people are not going to get the Monday off, which I find disgusting.

So what do you say to the people who work on Sundays, like supermarket employees? Are they going to get a day off on Liberation Day? No they’re not. How is that fair? Everyone always gets a day off on Liberation Day in order to remember the most important day in Jersey’s history.

So why aren’t Sandpiper CI closing their stores on Sunday? Explain that to me.
All it is is big, greedy, money-hungry companies that can’t close for a day or two in case their profits are affected. How ridiculous!

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Helier Falle

February 6, 2010 at 3:22 pm

I support the States decision not to have Monday 10th May as a public holiday. Why should they mess about with the day Liberation Day falls on.? Liberation Day is the 9th May and it should stay that way. It’s just a coincidence that this year the 9th is a Sunday. After all, in France, the french authorities never mess about with Bastille Day, leaving it to always fall on the 14th July.

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bob jeffrey

February 6, 2010 at 5:35 pm

and what about pub workers,taxi drivers .buses etc ,do they get liberation day off? don’t think so!!

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Albert Salmon

February 6, 2010 at 6:56 pm

Ms Goncalves asks “So what do you say to the people who work on Sundays, like supermarket employees? Are they going to get a day off on Liberation Day? No they’re not”.

Let me take Ms Goncalves’s logic a stage further: what should be said to the people who work on Mondays, like supermarket employees (again)?

Are they going to get a day off for working on the day after Liberation Day?

And so on and so forth, ad nauseam.

Dear God, what a ridiculous excuse not to work.

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Michael

February 9, 2010 at 3:46 pm

Has it not come to thought that maybe the people who will be working on the Sunday will get a day in lieu?

I remember the last Liberation day that fell on a Sunday (yes, believe it or not it has happened before!) I was working in a bar and had to work. It was a very busy day and I was given a day off in lieu – the same as happens if bar staff (or supermarket staff) work on a bank holiday Monday.

As for taxi drivers Bob, they are mostly self employed anyway so can choose whether they want to work or not

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