The shops are open on Sundays in Berlin on the occasion of the International Green week, the Berlinale, the International tourism exchange Berlin and the Berlin Art Week in the year 2018 were illegal. The decision of the administrative court of Berlin in two lawsuits and on Friday afternoon reported.
In November 2017 and August 2018, the Berlin Senate open Sunday had set days on which all the points of sale in Berlin, from 13:00 to 20:00 were allowed to open. In contrast, the service trade Union Verdi had complained in two methods.
The 4. Chamber of the administrative court of Berlin found in both proceedings, that the disputed definition of didn’t stand the shops are open Sundays in the year 2018, in each case in accordance with the Berlin shop opening law. The law for the establishment of a Sunday opening throughout the city there is a public interest. The have each.
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closing time, Verdi fails in claim against shopping on Sundays in Berlin
Klaus Kurpjuweit
Because of the occasion the shops are open Sundays had been not to notice Berlin, writes the court in a press release, but only in relation to the total size of Berlin in a small area. In accordance with the requirements of the Federal constitutional court the basic law protected Sunday rest is observed. Need thereof, therefore, a substantive reason for an exception. Mere economic revenue interests of the selling holders as well as an everyday “Shopping interest” from potential buyers was not sufficient to ensure, in principle, said the judge. (Tsp)
