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Ikea was ordered to pay more than $700,000 last week for staying open on Sundays in a Paris suburb. A big French home repair chain was sued for nearly as much -- also for violating a 102-year-old requirement to shut up shop on Sunday.
Both cases show that the stakes are mounting in a long-running battle between French unions and retailers over shopping on the seventh day.The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, encouraged by major companies, is trying to shed old restrictions as part of broader plans to loosen up the French economy.
Advocates of the 1906 law, determined to prevent its demise, are digging in and demanding ever-higher fines against violators of a rule they say upholds a less spending-obsessed French way of life.
Read the entire article, Ikea Fined for Sunday Opening in Paris
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