Petition · past parliament
Protect retail workers from abusive customers
Closed
50 signatures
What the petition asks
Protect retail workers from third party harassment. Make employers legally responsible for protecting staff against rude/ aggressive/ nasty customers.
Introduce fines for those employers who don't act to prevent their staff from being abused or who don't take steps to support them when they have faced abuse.
All forms of retail staff suffer so much verbal abuse during their working hours. Through the COVID-19 outbreak and before the outbreak happened. I feel retail staff deserve more respect than what they’re given considering they are one of the sole backbones of our society and the reason we are able to eat and to live.
All forms of retail staff suffer so much verbal abuse during their working hours. Through the COVID-19 outbreak and before the outbreak happened. I feel retail staff deserve more respect than what they’re given considering they are one of the sole backbones of our society and the reason we are able to eat and to live.
Timeline
| 30 Jul 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 30 Jan 2021 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
50
Status
Closed
Opened
30 Jul 2020
Closed
30 Jan 2021
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.