Hospitality staff working late-night shifts should be offered free transport home, the Scottish Greens conference will be told.
Party members will be asked to support a motion this weekend calling for licensed venues to place more emphasis on worker safety.
Trade union Unite has long campaigned for employers to accept a duty of care for their employees travelling home at unsocial hours.
Some workplaces already book taxis for staff who finish in the early hours of the morning but it is not a mandatory requirement in law.
Unite and the Greens' trade union group will propose the motion at the conference in Dundee, which starts tomorrow.
Dan Hutchison, a councillor on Glasgow City Council, said: "Assault, threatening behaviour and dangerous routes home are all too common for workers in hospitality.
"Every shift staff are left wondering whether they will be forced to walk home in the dark if they’ve not made enough tips to pay for a taxi, or whether they’ll make it home safely at all.
"Employers and governments across Scotland must play their part in preventing this cycle of anxiety for staff, and this motion would ensure that many of the barriers to a safe working environment for those working late can be brought to an end.
"Unite’s excellent work in improving safety measures on public transport and taking the burden for paying for safe travel away from workers could be transformative to the thousands working in late night bars and clubs.
"Scottish Greens must make clear our unwavering support for workers in the hospitality sector by backing this motion and making our towns and cities safer for everyone in them."
Caitlin Lee, a member of Unite's hospitality group, is supporting the motion after previously being the victim of sexual assault while walking home from a late-night shift at a Glasgow hotel.
She said: "I don’t want what happened to me to happen to any other worker, which is why we launched Get Me Home Safely. For this campaign to succeed we need buy-in from employers, workers and politicians.
"Support from the Scottish Greens Conference this weekend would send an unequivocal message through the Scottish Government that employers have a clear duty of care obligation to protect their workers by providing transport home after the last bus or train.
"As a party of government the Scottish Greens should support using every lever available to them to ensure workers no longer have to put themselves in danger just to get home from work."
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