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supermarket and shop-earning workers, paid a minimum of £10 per hour after a coronavirus, a Union Leader has argued.

Paddy Lillis Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw), said retail "heroes" should be rewarded, risk your health, people "fed and watered".

He described a post-crisis "day of reckoning" on wages and working conditions.

But The British Retail Consortium said, now is not to ask "The Right time" for a wage increase.

He added That the retail Footfall - The Number of visitors to shops - had suffered his "worst-ever decline" in March.

The government thanked "all of you, to make sure tirelessly in our supermarkets That The Public continue to have access to the most important goods".

- The worker is £9. 77, according to the latest Office for National Statistics data.

The figure is £15. 26 of all the professions, and The National minimum wage for workers over the Age Of 25 from £8. 72 per hour.

"Retail workers don't get the respect they deserve," said Mr Lillis. "It is always seen, by both the government and the local authorities, and, I dare say That there are even clients That it is a job you do Until You get a 'real job'.

"And I think it is A Day of reckoning at The End of this, where there is a real realization That these low-income earners must be supervised and a minimum of £10 per hour - a wage, basically. "

queues to Get In the super markets have a common point of view

While because of the coronavirus, supermarkets and convenience stores remained open.

Social distance has changed The Way they work, but with employees and customers is said to stay at least two meters apart, while in the interior, and queues.

But the unions have to be That concerns, and provided.

Mr Lillis told The Bbc he had been assured That more PPE, including masks, was on his way.

But He Said self-service checkout areas where customers are funnelled through a narrow area, and may need help with scanning and checkout process - it remained a particular concern.

"supermarket staff is not very such as medical workers, That you don't have to touch people to do their job," He Said .

"But since the movement of people, you are obliged to come, in the vicinity of the contact with people very often. "

workers were said to suffer up to and including operators and shelf-stackers "anxiety and stress", Mr Lillis, while Usdaw had lost "a few of our members in The Last week by coronavirus".

"Retail workers are there at the Sharp End ," he added. "I call it the Beating Heart of communities. You make out sure That the people get, are fed and watered, and the is an essential service. "

Usdaw, which has More Than 420,000 members, is the measurement of shop-employees about their experiences with customers. To answer of the 7,500 have been to have described 250, physically attacked.

The coronavirus lockdown has made have been in place for almost a month, and every Thursday night, millions of people in the UK to the sidewalks to applaud the balconies and Windows of the efforts of NHS staff.

Mr Lillis said he could not believe That this or a similar recognition was necessary for shop employees and other non-NHS key workers, adding: "There is no sense to tell you That you are wonderful and you are a hero, if you have The Money to the families. "

Tom Ironside, director of business and regulation at The British Retail Consortium, said: "In recent years, retailers have hard pay worked, to increase, to, many go beyond the legal requirements and the expansion of The National living wage to employees under the Age Of 25 years.

"However, with many retailers struggling to maintain viability in The Face of the ongoing crisis, it's not The Right time, putting even more pressure on an industry That already operates on very fine margins. "

A Ministry of enterprise, energy and industrial strategy, the spokesman said: "We Are committed to ensure That every worker is rewarded fairly for their contribution to the economy. to increase

"This Year , The National wage means That we put an additional £930 in the pockets of the 2. 4 million in the UK to the most poorly paid workers in this Year . "

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Source of news: bbc.com