INTERNATIONAL Spain: Liberalising opening hours could add 37,000 jobs
6 July 2012
Liberalising the days on which shops could open would create an extra 37,400 jobs in Spanish shopping centres, trade body the Association of Spanish Shopping Centres (AECC) claims.
Fri, 6 Jun 2012
Liberalising the days on which shops could open would create an extra 37,400 jobs in Spanish shopping centres, trade body the Association of Spanish Shopping Centres (AECC) claims.
It says that the 531 centres in the country currently employ 310,736 people, and that this could rise by 12% were such laws, allowing shops to open every day except four days around Christmas and Easter, to be applied.The benefit of the new jobs would be most keenly felt in the capital Madrid, with 7,187 potential new jobs, followed by the southern region of Andalusia, at 6,211.
AECC president Javier García-Renedo says that measures “that would go in the direction of supporting consumer activity and job creation should be priorities and a national goal”.
Liberalising the days on which shops could open would create an extra 37,400 jobs in Spanish shopping centres, trade body the Association of Spanish Shopping Centres (AECC) claims.
It says that the 531 centres in the country currently employ 310,736 people, and that this could rise by 12% were such laws, allowing shops to open every day except four days around Christmas and Easter, to be applied.The benefit of the new jobs would be most keenly felt in the capital Madrid, with 7,187 potential new jobs, followed by the southern region of Andalusia, at 6,211.
AECC president Javier García-Renedo says that measures “that would go in the direction of supporting consumer activity and job creation should be priorities and a national goal”.
