The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral (MCP) announced today that it is calling on the authorities to carefully consider all the reasons for and against and find a constitutional and legal way to ensure that Sunday remains the day on which employees should use the weekly rest provided for by the Labor Law.
According to them, the current debate about Sunday as a mandatory non-working day for a significant part of the economy and employees in a certain way also concerns the religious rights of a large number of Montenegrin citizens, especially those who are Christians.
The Ministry of Internal Trade said that the provision of the Law on Internal Trade, which designated Sunday as a mandatory weekly rest day for employees in shops, was deemed unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, but by adopting that provision, these employees were essentially equated with a large number of other employees who certainly do not work on Sundays, "for example, with the majority of employees in state administration and local self-governments, education...".
"Aware of constitutional categories such as the right to work, the rights of employees, special protection of the family, and taking into account, on the other hand, the freedom of entrepreneurship guaranteed by the Constitution, we call on the authorities to carefully consider all the reasons for and against and find a constitutional and legal way for Sunday to remain the day on which employees should use the weekly rest provided for by the Labor Law," the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs said in a statement.
They added that, given that the issue of Sundays being a non-working day falls within the jurisdiction of individual states, even in those that are members of the European Union, and that several EU countries have very strict restrictions on working on Sundays, remaining with this solution, and even expanding it, would not hinder the ambitions of the state administration and a large number of citizens to join that community.
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