Change in Sunday licensing laws and the effect on Monday absenteeism. A short report on a poultry processing plant.

Licensing laws were changed in Northern Ireland on 1st October 1987 to allow drinking of alcohol in public houses on Sundays. The effect on absenteeism was studied in the immediate period after this change using Monday absenteeism as a marker for change. The study was conducted in a small poultry processing plant employing approximately four hundred and forty people. Mean differences between Monday absenteeism for the month of October 1986 and 1985 prior to the change in laws and October 1987 were shown to be not significant.