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Introduce statutory maternity/paternity pay for UK PhD students

Submitted on Tuesday 8th January 2019

Rejected on Tuesday 15th January 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Introduce statutory maternity/paternity pay for UK PhD students

Petition Details

PhD students are not currently entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay or Maternity Allowance due to their lack of employment status, relying on voluntary contributions from their institution or research body. Every PhD student should be entitled to receiving the same support and support should exist.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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