Abstract
This paper presents the part of results obtained by a comprehensive statistical analysis of public opinion in the issue of work-free Sunday, based on a survey undertaken in the Republic of Croatia in October 2017. The research has been made aiming at providing the answer to the crucial question of whether free Sunday can be considered only as of the economic issue or concerns deeply almost all the spheres of life in general. Moreover, the authors want to show and promote free Sunday as socio-economic phenomena which become a political and ideological issue as a fundamental human right and true notion of human freedom and welfare. Besides, as a member of the European Sunday Alliance, Croatia is the first EU member state which promotes free Sunday as one of the measures of active demographic policy. Along with the results of classical statistical processing of public opinion research, the methodology of this research has also involved the hypothesis testing about differences in the proportions as well as post-stratification of the two-step stratified random sample based on gender, age, size of residence, regions and education level. Even more, than two-thirds of respondents consider important or exceptionally important not-working on Sundays and support the maximum limit of that work.
Highlights
This work has emerged as a practical need to launch further research based on the conclusions of the conference entitled „Free Sunday and Dignified Working Time in Europe: What is the Way Forward?” The conference was organized by the European Sunday Alliance at the European Parliament in Brussels, February 2019
This paper tries to provide the answer to the crucial question of whether work-free Sunday can be considered only as of the economic issue or concerns deeply almost all the segments of life in general
The case study is based on the results of the research of public opinion about the work-free Sunday, undertaken in October 2017
Summary
This work has emerged as a practical need to launch further research based on the conclusions of the conference entitled „Free Sunday and Dignified Working Time in Europe: What is the Way Forward?” The conference was organized by the European Sunday Alliance at the European Parliament in Brussels, February 2019. The implementation of free Sunday in the legislations of the western countries at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century was not motivated by spirituality and/or the workers' needs It has already seen the benefit of the workers' rest "for human-social and economic reasons" (Tamarut, 1970). It is certainly the tradition of thousands of years of practice that has influenced the determination of Sunday as a non-working day. Free Sunday is opposed to the competition of the burly capital owners For decades they have been misrepresenting realities of the work on Sundays, falsely claiming, for example, that it increases economic activities and employment rate in Croatia.
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