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Non-essential job workers working on Christmas Day

View Poll Results: Should non-essential services be open at Christmas?

Sure - Christmas wasn’t even recognised as an official public holiday until fairly recently

33.33%

Sure - Christmas wasn’t even recognised as an official public holiday until fairly recently
	5	33.33%

No - what’s wrong with people who can’t stay at home for one day of the year?

66.67%

No - what’s wrong with people who can’t stay at home for one day of the year?
	10	66.67%

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24-12-2018, 01:52 AM

Redway

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Redway

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Originally Posted by Mokka

The facts are not everyone celebrates Christmas. If you want everything to shut down for a Christian/Western Secular holiday... then you should also shut down for all the other religions major holidays. Where I work... more than half the staff don't celebrate or even understand the traditions surrounding the day. I had to explain stockings to several people this year. It doesnt make sense in modern society to shut everything down.

Aside from all that retail workers deserve a day off too. It’s all about common humanity this time of year.

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