Retail workers are urging Members of Parliament to exercise their conscience votes in favour of family and community life and not commerce, as a vote on a Bill aimed at opening shops on Easter Sunday is to be made sometime today.

Margaret Dornan, a worker at Farmers and Vice President of the National Distribution Union, said that retail workers already have very little family time, and this Bill would make it worse.

National MP Todd McClay’s Bill, if passed, would hand power to councils to decide whether shops in the area should trade on Easter Sunday.

Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin says the Council would not comment on a possible revision to the DCC's stance on Easter trading until any potential changes became law.

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