Economic Justifiability of Work on Sunday. Dilemmas and Suggestions
Economic Justifiability of Work on Sunday. Dilemmas and Suggestions

Author(s): Anton Petričević
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Law on Economics, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: ADJURIS – International Academic Publisher
Keywords: work on sunday; socioeconomic relations; psychological relations; family relationships; economic development;
Summary/Abstract: This topic has been discussed intensively among scientists, workers, consumers, in church circles in the last 20 years. Mostly from the available research it can be seen that the Republic of Croatia is the country where most people want to have a non-working Sunday. At the same time, the question is whether all workers can protect themselves from work on Sundays. So, one part of workers has to work on Sundays. While in the Republic of Croatia we are only at the very beginning of solving this problem, many countries have already addressed this issue. The paper will show how the EU countries have resolved this issue. The EU trend is greater liberalization of work on Sundays. There are several hypotheses in this paper: Hypothesis 1 – work on Sunday is negatively related to the quality of health, Hypothesis 2 – work on Sunday is positively related with conflicts in family relationships. The research carried out in Eastern Slavonia on a representative sample and results obtained by on-line survey method, method of systematization, method of analysis and synthesis, historical method and comparative method should not only remain a dead letter on paper, but the competent institutions and professional public should create a legislative framework and apply the results in practice as a basis for the protection of workers.

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