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MA Attorney General to Wal-Mart: you aren't' above the law
From the Boston Globe:
Attorney General Tom Reilly told Wal-Mart officials on Tuesday they had to close their Massachusetts stores on Thanksgiving, after receiving complaints the retailer intended to stay open.In a letter to the Arkansas-based company's local counsel, the chief of the attorney general's Business and Labor Protection Bureau said state law prohibits stores from opening on either Thursday or Sunday, Dec. 25, when Christmas will be celebrated.
"For more than a century, Massachusetts has recognized that Thanksgiving is unlike other days -- it is a day when families can come together and enjoy a day of rest," labor bureau Chief Nicholas Messuri wrote, citing revisions to the state's so-called Blue Laws as recently as 1994. "In that most recent revision of the law, the protection for Thanksgiving remained in place."
Posted by Brendan - November 23, 2005 10:14 AM - In The News