This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The Government does not designate particular occupations as skilled or unskilled, except in certain limited areas such as whether an occupation is included on the Shortage Occupation List.

The Government is also not responsible for the pay of all care workers, many of whom are employed privately.

We have published a number of petitions calling on the Government to take action to financially reward various key workers, including carers, as a result of coronavirurs. You might like to sign some of these petitions:

Identify and reward all key workers due to Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308903

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

Fund free Travel, Parking, Hotel & Childcare during COVID-19 for NHS staff: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305854

Fund free meals for NHS staff whilst on duty during the COVID19 Pandemic: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303485

Supply NHS key frontline staff working during Covid-19 healthy food hampers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306339

We have also published a petition calling on the Government to consider social care as equally important to NHS, which you also might like to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302897

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

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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 can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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