The Hunter's Boxing Day retail trading hours will be the focus of a rally held by the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association at Speers Point Park today.
Retail workers and State MPs will also join the protest, urging the State Government to reinstate trading restrictions on the public holiday.
Newcastle Branch Secretary of the SDA, Barbara Nebart says there is no benefit for retailers opening on Boxing Day.
"The story that's there's economic benefits and people will spend more money is completely false. There's no economic benefit at all to opening on Boxing Day. People just have a greater spread of hours to spend the same amount of money that they've had and there's no benefit, there's no extra work created because stores have budgets," she said.
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| SDA Newcastle Branch Secretary Barbara Nebart |
