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Shop workers are being abused for trying to enforce social distancing guidelines
RETAIL workers desperately need new laws to protect them from assault and abuse, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been warned by an amalgam of employers and the workers’ trade union.
The workers also face dire problems caused by low pay, insecure employment and the exploitation of young workers.
Retail chains and trade union Usdaw are united in their calls for new laws to protect staff via targeted regulations that apply to front-line workers such as firefighters and ambulance staff. They would include stiffer penalties for assailants and abusers.
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
