{"id":5818,"date":"2020-06-11T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/finance\/blog-post\/four-out-of-10-shop-workers-refuse-to-go-back-to-work-without-ppe\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:20:05","slug":"four-out-of-10-shop-workers-refuse-to-go-back-to-work-without-ppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/finance\/blog-post\/outlook-blog-post\/four-out-of-10-shop-workers-refuse-to-go-back-to-work-without-ppe\/","title":{"rendered":"Four out of 10 shop workers refuse to go back to work without PPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-content post-content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Four out of 10 shop workers say they will not return to work on Monday unless they have proper PPE.<\/p>\n<p>\t    \t<!-- \/14181245\/TEST-INPAGE-TEXTAD_4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"inpage-ad\" data-origid=\"4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1498568931895-4\">\n\t\t\t<!-- CALLED --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1498568931895-4'); });\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><!-- post CALLED -->\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>They also say that it\u2019s up to small business owners to provide PPE for them.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 90 per cent of UK retail and consumer shop workers say it\u2019s down to employers to make sure employees have the right PPE workwear, according to a survey.<\/p>\n<p>Staff resistance to returning to what they feel is an unsafe environment will be another headache for small business owners, coming on top of a cratered economy and a looming rent quarter day on July 31, with landlords expecting the previous three months\u2019 rent.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty per cent of those in retail and other customer-facing businesses say they need employers to give clear guidance about PPE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbusiness.co.uk\/how-to-do-a-coronavirus-risk-assessment-on-your-small-business-premises-2550447\/\"><span class=\"title--only\">How to do a coronavirus risk assessment on your small business premises<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked who should be responsible for ensuring workers have the right equipment to work safely, 46 per cent of respondents also said the Government should shoulder the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Three quarters of those surveyed by protective workwear manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/ballyclarelimited.com\/\">Ballycare<\/a> said they would feel safer returning to work if their employers did provide the right PPE.<\/p>\n<p>As lockdown measures are relaxed and people consider their back-to-work options, the survey showed that if people were able to go into work tomorrow, nearly one third (31 per cent) of those in the retail and consumer sector would not feel comfortable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"suggestvplayer\"><\/div>\n<p>A notable 15 per cent of those already back at work in retail said they feel discomfort in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Silke Hendricks, managing director of Ballyclare, said: \u201cIf people continue to feel insecure about returning to work, we could see a huge impact on the UK\u2019s efforts to reopen the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted by Populus Data Solutions, had responses from 2,019 respondents, 304 of whom worked in retail and consumer. The survey was live between May 21 and May 29.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbusiness.co.uk\/how-to-reopen-your-small-business-post-lockdown-what-we-know-so-far-2550310\/\"><span class=\"title--only\">How to reopen your restaurant, pub or hotel post-lockdown<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the daily Downing Street press conference yesterday, Alok Sharma, the business secretary, confirmed that from June 15 non-essential retailers, such as clothing stores and bookshops, would be able to welcome customers for the first time since March 23 \u2014 but only if they had made their premises \u201cCovid-secure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sharma said that other businesses, including pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and gyms, would remain shut until July 4 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--\n                --><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-intro secondary-text-colour\">With all shops reopening on June 15, 42% of shop workers say they will stay home unless small business owners provide them with PPE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sloane.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}