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Enforce stiffer penalties for abuse against retail workers, union urges after assaults and threats double
PEOPLE who assault retail staff should face harsher penalties, shopworkers’ union Usdaw urged the government today as it launched a House of Commons petition.
Assaults and abuse of retail workers has doubled during the coronavirus outbreak in Britain, the union’s survey found.
Last year, shopworkers were verbally abused, threatened or assaulted by customers every fortnight on average. But now that average has doubled to every week during the pandemic.
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