Tesco workers offered body cameras as violent attacks against employees soar
Tesco workers offered body cameras as violent attacks against employees soar
Tesco’s boss is calling for changes to the laws as company says more than 200 of its employees are victims of serious physical assaults each month
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"Mr Murphy write in the Mail on Sunday that a law should be introduced to make abuse or violence towards retail workers an offence in its own right across the UK"
Is brandishing a knife at someone not already an offense?
Surely the problem is a shameful lack of policing and more people falling into poverty following 15 years of tory rule. how is creating an offense out of something that is already an offense going to change anything?
Seriously. Emulating the USA’s criminal “policies” is stupid, and I live here. Next thing he’s going to suggest all your cops have guns, and then suddenly you’ll have black market firearms everywhere.
Every police officer in Northern Ireland has firearms and there's no issue
Or Tesco can cough up the dough for security guards like they used to, before Tesco made them “redundant” and replaced them with apparently ineffective technology as others have mentioned.
If, as a giant corporate entity, your employees are getting wide spread abuse, you need to look at your company and assess why so much anger exists. The problem is likely rooted in Tesco treating it's customers like shit whilst they are living through an economic crisis.
Yes, somebody who snaps and draws a weapon is ultimately in the wrong, but with the numbers of customers Tesco has there was always a good chance somebody would snap.
No need for new laws here, the current laws should just be actaully enforced.