Paul Day

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boots staff told The Bbc they feel "unsafe" at work, as customers continue to look for hair dyeing and tanning cream in spite of the Corona-Virus-pandemic.

employees said they were frustrated, some of the branches back to beauty courses opened and lifted limits on The Number of shoppers allowed inside at once.

Some stores were still waiting for visors, masks and gloves for pharmacy employees, others said.

boots said, it did what it could to the protection of your employees.

"nobody needs to buy, scent'

carrying A staff, said to The Pharmacy in a store in the South-west of England, The Bbc , to work your own gloves, because your team did not use any, while shifts.

her business had closed courses with non-essential products and restricted The Number of customers, But She Said these measures were given to lifted, This Week , no explanation to the employees on The Shop floor.

"The Doors are easy to open and everyone can walk - the People are on the search to make-up, wandering around," She Said .

"No One needs to buy the fragrance right now. "

you said The Pharmacy was overwhelmed, and that the plastic screens between staff and customers "small" and "pointless".

'In The Good end of the scale,'

Like other pharmacy chains, boots is reported to have been a major retailer in the UK, to prevent the efforts that the spread of The Virus , which is why the shops can stay open.

It is not only a balance between the customers and keep The Pharmacy team Safe - and-Paul Day , Director of the pharmacists' Defence Association union, said it was "on The Good end of the scale" when it came to protect pharmacy personnel.

He Said community pharmacists up and down the country, which were already "squeezed", under increased pressure because of the outbreak.

And boots, like other chains, faces the additional question of how the protection of non-pharmacy personnel.

An employee said to the cashier in a store in the West Midlands , boots should "only take a certain amount of People " in the stores, and not sell things such as "mascaras and candles".

"Frontline healthcare'

Tracey Clement, chief operating officer for Boots Uk , thanked the staff for the "amazing care and dedication show".

"I know, that this is a difficult time, and we will what we can to ensure that our colleagues have the NHS-recommended PPE available, in addition to extra Plexiglas and plastic screening and social distancing devices that you can use," She Said in a statement.

"We have over 60 000 fellow members and we will do what we can to protect you while you work on the Front lines of health care. "

Two online-petitions - More Than 1,400 signatures - not to Say "essential" boot-seller should come to work, and should be given a paid holiday.

the boots is no longer, it needs employees in its No7 beauty to come to the area in the work, has furloughed beauty consultant and said it was one of The First retailers to ask for all at-risk and pregnant colleagues to stay home with full pay.

A customer adviser in Devon branch, specializing in skin care, said she was 'baffled' that they and their colleagues were expected to go to work.

"I went on Monday Morning and I was witness to the employees hanging out, doing Nothing – chatting in the canteen, because there is Nothing to do," She Said .

you said, the employees were counting the packets of Chips and clean up of the camp, to spend the time.

"This is People who actually do travel in Public Transport , to do in the boots, these non-essential jobs," She Said , adding that they we had to get two buses to work.

A sales assistant on the make-up aisle in a branch in the North-East of England, said The Shop was almost empty, But the People came anyway, in looking at the mascaras and the employees were standing around "doing Nothing ".

"This brings us extreme risk, as it takes only enters an infected customer in The Store , and you pass it," he claimed.

"Domino effect would be huge. "

He admitted that it added a "stressful" time for boots, But that The Shop -floor staff had not received direct communication from The Company and needed more "clarity".

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Source of news: bbc.com