BOSSES must act to protect outdoor workers from the dangerous effects of adverse weather conditions, retail staff demanded today.

Usdaw delegates, gathered in Blackpool for the retail union’s 2023 annual delegate meeting, unanimously backed a motion which called for a right to breaks when temperatures plunge or soar.

Moving the proposition, Paisley and Inverclyde member Anne Will warned that she and her colleagues are constantly forced to ask their employers for respite from extreme weather when breaks in such circumstances should be an “automatic process.”