Government & Legislation
BRC calls for increased protection as shop worker abuse jumps 7%
In addition, the findings also showed that the total cost to retailers of crime and crime prevention was ยฃ2.5bn, an increase of 14% on the previous year
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The BRC is continuing to push the government for a โstatutory offenceโ for assaulting, threatening, or abusing retail workers, after staff report on average 455 incidents of violence and abuse each day.
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