Submitted on Tuesday 24th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 14th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Lock down the construction industry that isn't essential during COVID
Last night's announcement (23.03) was unclear about the travelling restrictions and what is considered as essential work. The major construction corporations aren't being fair. Top managers are working from home but they are pushing workers to continue to work outside, putting their life at risk.
There are people of all ages working in the construction industry in London; they are being put at risk unnecessarily in this pandemic, by managers and clients that comfortably work from home. There should be exceptions - for instance construction involving hospitals, but the rest should be put on pause, to avoid the virus spreading and killing more people.
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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.
Close construction sites because of Covid19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308933.
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NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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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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