Submitted on Tuesday 17th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Inflate statutory sick pay temporarily during COVID 19
Statutory Sick Pay currently does not come close to what many (essential) jobs pay per week. Especially food/ delivery services. Many lorry drivers (who deliver food to supermarkets) are not given sick pay and on average this means a loss of 4/5ths weekly earnings. Sick days are discouraged.
It's cruel and inhumane to advise members of the population to practice social distancing/ self-isolation, while many of their households are unable to do so, at the risk of future bankruptcy/ financial peril. Social distancing is the only thing that's helped kerb this thing. So why is the UK doing nothing to assist/ enforce it's blanket implementation? Guidelines are not good enough.
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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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302277
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NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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