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However, the reality is very different, with work ongoing on numerous important pieces of legislation. One of these was the Protection of Workers Bill, which passed its final stage last week. It introduces a new statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker and provides further legal protections when the worker is carrying out their statutory duties, such as age restricted sales. Another Bill that passed its first stage last week, and which I was pleased to speak in support of, was the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotla...

By Steve Farrell2021-01-20T11:44:00+00:00 It is hoped the bill will lead to more more prosecutions and convictions of offenders Retail leaders have welcomed a move by Scottish Parliament to create a specific offence of assaulting a shopworker, and called on Westminster to follow suit. Scottish Parliament yesterday voted to support a bill to create a new statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker and provide extra legal protections when the worker is carrying out statutory duties such as ID checks for age-restricted sales.  MSP Daniel Johnson’s Protection of ...

Store boss asks MSPs to back shop workers protection bill MSPs have been urged to back a Bill to give greater protection to shopworkers from abuse and violence. The boss of the Co-op has written to MSPs asking them to vote for the bill in Holyrood today. Daniel Johnson, Labour MSP has taken the Protection of Workers Bill through the parliament and it reaches its third and final stage today. If a majority of MSPs vote to pass it there will be a new offence of assaulting, threatening, abusing, obstructing or hindering a retail worker who is doing their job.

Co-op’s managing director for Scotland, Derek Furnival, has written to members of the Scottish Parliament to ask them to support a new bill that will provide greater protection for shopworkers in the face of increasing levels of abuse and violence. Daniel Johnson MSP’s Protection of Workers Bill is due to complete its third and final stage in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow (18 January). If passed it will mean assaulting, threatening, abusing, obstructing or hindering a