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Guarantee pay to 0 hour workers in the event of a covid-19 business closure.

Submitted on Friday 13th March 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 18th March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Guarantee pay to 0 hour workers in the event of a covid-19 business closure.

Petition Details

As the spread of covid-19 continues there has been no guarantee workers on 0-hours contracts in any affected businesses will be paid should their place of employment be forced to temporarily close. This has the potential to induce mass financial hardship on workers on these contracts.

Additional Information

The Government should introduce legislation to protect 0 hour contract workers ensuring they are paid should their place of employment be forced to temporarily close. They should ensure this pay is not being taken as part of the employees holiday entitlement and support businesses financially to pay these workers during this difficult time.


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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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