City requires employers to provide safe transport home at night for hospitality workers

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Glasgow: Safe transport home for hospitality workers to be guaranteedGlasgow City Council has passed a motion which will require hospitality businesses seeking an extended licence to provide safe transport home for late night workers.READ MORE: Edinburgh tram and Glasgow metro projects made SNP policy despite fears over fundingThe motion, which was debated at the full meeting of the council on Thursday, calls on the authority to make the provision of safe and free transport home for staff working past 11pm a requirement for any new and extended alcohol licences.She tweeted: “Thank you Fair Hospitality and Caitlin Lee for pushing the Get Me Home Safely campaign to the top of the Glasgow City Council agenda.”Eunis Jassemi, Labour councillor for the Victoria Park ward in Glasgow, said he was delighted the motion passed.A former hospitality worker himself, Mr Jassemi tweeted: said: “I’m delighted to have worked closely with Unite Scotland on getting the Get Me Home Safety motion passed in the biggest city in the country.We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers."

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