Scottish hospitality workers warn EHRC trans guidance leaves staff to face abuse

A Scottish union for hospitality workers has said there has been an increase in transphobia and abuse (Image: Unsplash)

A SCOTTISH hospitality workers' union has said “very little consideration” has been given to staff who will have to enforce the UK equality watchdog’s guidance on single-sex spaces and face abuse from members of the public.

Unite Hospitality Glasgow said that in the wake of interim guidance being published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last year, workers had been “forced to engage with transphobic rhetoric and insults due to members of the public being legislatively supported in vocalising their bigotry”.