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Increase the minimum wage of health and retail( food & delivery) employees asap

Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 15th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Increase the minimum wage of health and retail( food & delivery) employees asap

Petition Details

NHS & Care staff are already overworked with it only set to get worse. The poor retail staff are pushed to their limits with abuse & demands. Care assistance, retail workers and ALL hospital staff including porters etc. are our most skilled right now and they need showing we appreciate the hard work

Additional Information

I am seeing so much verbal support for the staff of care homes and retail food chains but that verbal support doesn’t take away the impact of the abuse & high demand they are dealing with. 99% are not used to such high stress levels & are not paid enough to compensate for this. Giving them extra will show the full support of our government & show them they are a work force we truly appreciate! Either the business owners who are seeing increased revenue need to up the pay or the government do.


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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

The Government is not responsible for setting the salary of most key workers, or setting minimum wages for particular sectors, but you may wish to sign petitions calling for the following actions:

Make hazard pay mandatory for key workers in the midst of COVID 19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307619

Give all key workers a 100% tax and Nat. Ins. holiday through COVID-19 crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306845

Pay bonus to all key workers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307215

Incentivise NHS staff during the COVID19 outbreak by making wages untaxable: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304595

Increase pay for NHS healthcare workers and recognise their work: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300073

Bonus for emergency services personnel working due to COVID-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303306

Make the minimum wage equal for all ages and increase to at least £10: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301749

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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