Hello everyone,

I'm an employee of Boohoo.com, I work in the Burnley distribution centre as a warehouse operative amongst many other's and we need your help!.

Boohoo.com keeps telling the press, management teams and employees that they're following stringent government guidelines. The steps they've taken are: few hand sanitizers, tables in canteen set up like taking a test, staggered breaks ensuring 2 metres apart, leaving shift 30 minutes early with team leaders ensuring people are 2 metres apart.

The above is not guaranteed to keep us safe, they're also overlooking the health hazard of the very items we touch. In one 12 hour shift a picker would be touching on average 1,500 items, these same items have been touched by stock control staff when putting them on shelfs ready to pick, processing to barcode items before being sent to stock control and not to mention the countless hand contact getting the items to the UK site in Burnley.

Pickers on Dispatch department and stock control share same aisles, working in close proximity all it takes is us to walk by each other cough or sneeze and we're spreading the virus. There is no PPE in regards to gloves, the equipment we use isn't cleaned(trolleys, totes, scanners, PCs, bags).

Another thing Boohoo have overlooked is travel as of tonight taxis stop running, people are not meant to carpool due to the virus, boohoo has a bus service however the bus would become a hotspot for the virus much like the warehouse will be and we shouldn't have to be made to walk to work when we do enough of that when working.

There is several companies that have taken the same attitude as Boohoo "Business as usual", now those companies have closed doors for the well being of their employees. Many people at Boohoo believe that Boohoo won't close doors until someone dies from the virus, by that point it will lead to an outbreak and boohoo by remaining open will have caused hundreds of cases with several deaths.

I'm asking you to help for our sakes, also for our families who we live with and care for. Some of us may not fall into vulnerable categories but the people we live and care for should be taken into account in this matter.

#DOTHERIGHTTHING