Submitted on Saturday 21st March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Chancellor must revise income support plan to include freelance & self employed
The Chancellor has announced government will support the wages of workers to keep them in jobs as the Covid-19 outbreak escalates. This policy critically excludes employees, freelancers & the self employed whose contracts have already been terminated in direct reference to the Covid-19 crisis.
In this confused and anxious time filmmakers, artists, writers, musicians and entrepreneurs are facing unprecedented times and should not be forgotten or left behind in this crisis.
Chancellor must urgently revise his income support plan to include these workers and not force them onto the welfare system.
15% of the population is self-employed. We need government to make a big, bold and brave move to support these workers, our families and our creative communities.
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