Even shop robots should have Sundays off, German 法廷，裁判所 支配するs as it says 自動化するd supermarkets must の近くに on the seventh day

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Robots working long hours in supermarkets are just as する権利を与えるd to a day of 残り／休憩（する） as their human 相当するものs, a German 法廷，裁判所 has 支配するd, 支持するing a centuries-old 禁止（する） on Sunday 商業.

Tegut, a 地域の chain now 実験ing with some 40 fully-自動化するd 蓄える／店s, has been embroiled in a 合法的な 戦う／戦い since service 部門 union Verdi argued 許すing the shops to stay open could have 'knock-on 影響s' for human 労働者s.

The highest 行政の 法廷，裁判所 in the 明言する／公表する of Hesse agreed that the innovative new 蓄える／店s, in 操作／手術 for the last four years, should be made to の近くに on Sundays, 特記する／引用するing a 1,700-year-old Christian 原則 of 'Sunday 残り／休憩（する）' enshrined in the 憲法 since 1919.

Thomas St?b, a board member of Tegut, told the 財政上の Times the 判決，裁定 was '完全に grotesque', arguing that the 蓄える／店s were '基本的に walk-in vending machines'. He said Sundays accounted for some 25-30 per cent of the 自動化するd 蓄える／店s' 週刊誌 貿易（する）.

The Verdi union contested that the success of such shops could see 競争相手s 押し進めるing for その上の 緩和 of Sunday 貿易（する）ing 支配するs, howe ver, arguing 労働者s need the 保証（人）d day off to spend time with loved ones.

There are some 40 of the innovative 自動化するd 蓄える／店s 現在／一般に in 操作／手術?

顧客s check in with their ID and are 解放する／自由な to roam the 蓄える／店, 支払う／賃金ing at self-checkouts

Tegut, a スイスの-owned supermarket based in Fulda, operates some 300 従来の 蓄える／店s 全国的な, and has sought innov ative means of 拡大 with its 40 'teos'.

The 'teos', 指名するd in 尊敬の印 to the chain's late 創立者, Theo Gutberlet, operate much like normal 蓄える／店s, 許すing 顧客s to peruse and 支払う／賃金 by self-checkout after dropping off their ID at the 入り口.

St?b said they 記録，記録的な／記録するd higher 率s of 万引 without human 安全, but the 利益（をあげる）s outweighed the losses.

Teos 供給するd the brand with a way around Germany's strict 貿易（する）ing 支配するs, which 要求する 蓄える／店s to start の近くにing by 6:30pm on weekdays and 避ける Sunday shopping altogether, with a few 著名な exceptions.

Caveats have been 追加するd since the late 1980s to 含む 柔軟性 at 確かな times of the year, and devolving regulatory 力／強力にするs to each of Germany's 16 明言する／公表するs.

Train 駅／配置するs, airports and 石油 駅／配置するs may still open on Sundays - but the 制限する 法律s 確実にする some variation between the 法律 and operating hours in practice.?

The perceived 緩和 of 支配するs has been met with 抵抗 from unions and 宗教的な groups, who 持続する Sunday should be withheld as a day of 残り／休憩（する）.

Philip B?ttner, an 公式の／役人 at KWA, an (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者 of the Protestant Church ロビーing against Sunday 貿易（する）ing, told the 財政上の Times: 'Our society needs a special day per week that has its own 特徴 to celebrate Christian spirituality and to have 株d experiences with friends and family.'

Stefan Naas, 長，率いる of the 自由主義の FDP’s 議会の group in Hesse, told the 出口 the '現在の 法律 is 完全に at 半端物s with today’s reality', however, arguing the 'sale of a 瓶／封じ込める of milk and a box of cream' does nothing to fundamentally 土台を崩す a '静かな Sunday'.

支持者s of the innovative new 蓄える／店s say their use on Sundays could also help create 競争 with the few 石油 駅／配置するs and souvenir 蓄える／店s 許すd to open on the 週末 to the 利益 of 消費者s.

“More 代案／選択肢s to kiosks and 石油 駅／配置するs could create more 競争 and lower prices, which would 利益 消費者s,'?Jan B?chel, an 経済学者 who specialises in digitisation at the German 経済的な 学校／設ける, told Fortune.

'If 科学技術の 革新s make it possible for people to buy individual goods without, conversely, other people having to work for hours to do so, the 可能性のある should be 偉業／利用するd,' he 追加するd.

The 判決，裁定 only 影響する／感情s 蓄える／店s in Hesse, and the teos can still operate in other German 明言する／公表するs

In light of the December 判決，裁定 against Tegut, the 政府 of Hesse has 示すd it is willing to create a 合法的な exception for 自動化するd 蓄える／店s.

Stefan Naas told the 財政上の Times he hopes the 問題／発行する will be re solved by summer 2024, みなすing the 法律 an anachronism.?

The 裁判／判断 only 適用するs to the 地域, and the いわゆる 'vending machines' will be 許すd to operate in other German 明言する／公表するs for the time 存在.

Tegut has since paused its 拡大 of its successful 自動化するd supermarkets in the 明言する／公表する.