Note… all the games are in North America so within 3 hrs time zone … but bars need to be open until 4am somehow

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    The same reason half of Europe has closed shops on Sunday, worker protection.

    You need strong laws to not have businesses abusing and pressuring peoples to work the shity 14h shift till morning for earning a peanut.

    And workers protection law + North America are not often put in the same sentence.

    Also it’s generally not worth it business wise. Paying salaries and more from 2 to 4 (or 6am or whatever) to sell two beers means losing money. You might have a few festive nights here and there, but most of the weeks/months you’ll have an empty bar so even the owners are not pushing for it.

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      Allowing bars to stay open is not the same as requiring them to stay open. Owners won’t keep a bar open 24 hours if there isn’t any business.

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        I know that, but some might pressure you to work the night shift “or…”

        People living around bars also want to be able to sleep sometimes.

        Closed bar also means less drunk people in the streets. In my city you cannot buy alcohol “to go” in shops after 9pm and bars close at 2.

        After that if you want to continue partying you go to night clubs.

        Anyway, a wise drunk dude once said “nothing good happens after 2”, and from experience he was right.

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          Closing means you have all the drunks dumped out on the street at the same time to have a fight. Stay open later, let people leave on their own staggering out out more.

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                That’s such an entitled shit to say, holy shit check your privilege. What if it’s one of the only things I could afford? What if it’s my parents house? Come on.

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                  There are usually other places at a similar price, its very unlikely there is literally only 1 place to live and everything else is significantly higher unless you are getting a crack den - at which point the pub probably has more reasons to complain about having a crack den upstairs.

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            Oh lol he’ll get reelected then (I don’t know the guy at all, just a few jokes about him I’ve seen on Lemmy)

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      The same reason half of Europe has closed shops on Sunday, worker protection.

      That sounds more like countries enforcing a religious preference (day of rest on Sunday for church) than worker protection. I suppose it could be branded as secular, but so can France’s ban on wearing hijabs in the name of laïcité.

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        Ehh, maybe it started of as a religious thing, perhaps why Sunday was chosen specifically; but the idea of forcing everyone to have a day off is wonderful.

        In the us, there’s no federal law limiting the number of days people have to work. Some states have a 1 every 7 days rule. But that’s not specific enough, for shift schedule work, they can set your off day to be Sunday this week, and Friday next week, and only schedule you a few hours a day so you get to work almost 2 weeks in a row with out overtime pay.

        IMO, it should be (regardless of number of hours worked) on day 6 your pay is 1.5x, and day 7 is required off. At day 8 it’s 2x pay, +2 days of paid vacation time (worth 8 hours or your typical shift length (which ever is larger)). It all doubles each day with out a day off. With a signed agreement between you, HR, your boss, whomever is “in charge”/owns the company and the labor board with specific documentation explaining why you have to work so many days in a row and why the job can’t wait a day or someone else can’t fill in. Failure to do this step results in x5 back pay for everyday worked after 6. Doubling everyday after 8.

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        Nah, it’s definitely a worker protection ting. Sure, it has religious origins, which is why it’s specifically on Sundays, but that’s not why we keep it in place. It’s pretty widely supported that we should have one day per week where most shops are mandated to keep closed, and nobody sees a good reason to make it any other day than Sunday, so we’ve kept it on Sundays.