{"id":6087,"date":"2026-06-25T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/labor-minister-orders-pip-inspection-of-intermarche-for-sunday-trading-loophole\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:14:36","slug":"labor-minister-orders-pip-inspection-of-intermarche-for-sunday-trading-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/labor-minister-orders-pip-inspection-of-intermarche-for-sunday-trading-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Minister Orders PIP Inspection of Intermarch\u00e9 for Sunday Trading Loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s Minister of Labor, Agnieszka Dziemanowicz-B\u0105k, has ordered an urgent inspection of an Intermarch\u00e9 store in Brzesko following allegations that the retailer used a fake \u201creading club\u201d to bypass Sunday trade restrictions.  <\/p>\n<h4>Regulatory Evasion in Brzesko<\/h4>\n<p>The Ministry of Family, Labor, and Social Policy received reports regarding an Intermarch\u00e9 supermarket on Mickiewicza Street 29, which allegedly circumvented Sunday trading bans by establishing a &#8220;Reader\u2019s Club&#8221; on the premises.<\/p>\n<h4>Government Intervention<\/h4>\n<p>On June 23, 2026, Minister Agnieszka Dziemanowicz-B\u0105k officially requested that the Chief Labor Inspector (PIP) launch an immediate investigation into the outlet, placing the proceedings under special oversight.<\/p>\n<h4>Ministry Policy Stance<\/h4>\n<p>The ministry clarified that trading exemptions are intended for facilities genuinely located within libraries, cinemas, or cultural centers, rather than retail stores that artificially incorporate cultural activities to manipulate the law.<\/p>\n<h4>Potential Legal Consequences<\/h4>\n<p>Should the inspection confirm that the &#8220;Reader\u2019s Club&#8221; is a fiction designed to circumvent labor laws, the owners face significant financial penalties. This case serves as a warning to other retail chains that the government will aggressively challenge creative interpretations of the trading ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s Minister of Labor, Agnieszka Dziemanowicz-B\u0105k, has ordered an urgent inspection of an Intermarch\u00e9 store in Brzesko following allegations that the retailer used a fake \u201creading club\u201d to bypass Sunday trade restrictions. Regulatory Evasion in Brzesko The Ministry of Family, Labor, and Social Policy received reports regarding an Intermarch\u00e9 supermarket on Mickiewicza Street 29, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}