Christmas Eve officially a day off in Poland from 2025

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>**Polish President Andrzej Duda signed the so-called “Work-free Christmas Eve act” on Friday evening – the President’s Chancellery informed.**

>The latest amendment to Poland’s “Work-free days act” was proposed by the Left. Earlier this year it was passed in parliament, and now the Polish President approved it – officially making Christmas Eve a day off from 2025, and introducing an additional shopping Sunday in December instead.

>Until now, shops in Poland were open on two Sundays preceding Christmas. However, from 2025, there will be three so-called “shopping Sundays” in December. The act states that any store employee can only work on two of them, though.

>The head of the President’s Chancellery, Małgorzata Paprocka, told Polish Radio that the president also decided to refer the act to the Constitutional Tribunal in the follow-up review mode – as adding the third working Sunday in December, as well as some other changes, are introduced by the act without public consultation.

>The head of the Presidential Chancellery stressed, however, that the president has no doubts about the work-free Christmas Eve itself – and this aspect of the act will not be subject to follow-up review.

>The act will enter into force on February 1, 2025.

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>*Source: IAR, PAP*