Health and safety law 2019 (July 2019)

Chapter 11

Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-Related Sales etc.) (Scotland) Bill

[ch 11: page 212]

Retail and hospitality trade unions welcomed a member’s bill lodged in the Scottish parliament by MSP Daniel Johnson. This proposes a law to protect workers in the retail sector in Scotland, and those who sell age-restricted items, such as bar and restaurant staff. The Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-Related Sales etc.) (Scotland) Bill would provide “a clear and lower threshold at which obstructive, abusive or threatening behaviour is considered a crime and can be prosecuted by creating new criminal offences for verbal and physical abuse against these workers”.

https://www.usdaw.org.uk/About-Us/News/2018/Jan/Protection-of-Workers-Bill-launched-by-Daniel-John

https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/Bills/107499.aspx


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