Go shopping in Zug at night
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s highest appeals court, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court (FAC) has decided that gas station shops may not stay open all night long in Zurich and surroundings. They must close between 01:00 and 05:00, or violate the law against working at night. The shops’ owners argued that since the petrol station itself and the attendant restaurants are not affected by the night work law, they should be allowed to keep the stores open.
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) refused last December 2008 to give an all-night permit to seven petrol station shops in the Zurich region. The shops responded by taking the case to the tribunal. The FAC argues that the question of working at night or not should be determined by the legislature. Its decison may be appealed to the Swiss Supreme Court. Gas station shops in other cantons are not directly affected by the ruling.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 21 October 2009.
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Tags: FAC, Federal Administrative Court, gas station, petrol station, SECO, shopping at night, working at night, Zurich