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National Holiday to celebrate outstanding work of IT teams during COVID19

Submitted on Thursday 2nd April 2020

Rejected on Wednesday 15th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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National Holiday to celebrate outstanding work of IT teams during COVID19

Petition Details

Introduce a National Holiday to celebrate the outstanding work done by IT teams up and down the country to allow home-working for the country, and for keeping the lights on and all core Infrastructure available during the COVID19 pandemic.

Additional Information

There are IT teams up and down the country that are working tirelessly to ensure that people are able to continue working from their homes during the COVID19 pandemic. These teams are working unheard of hours to keep systems fully functional and to enable the bandwidth to support this new style of working to keep the country functioning.


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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.

You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:

Move all bank holidays to a time after Coronavirus Lockdown: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309243

Bank holiday to thank those who helped during the COVID-19 crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307364

Create a new Bank Holiday in recognition of the NHS and all its amazing workers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303882

Introduce a 'one off' bank holiday after covid-19 pandemic to boost morale: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304513

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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