This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

It is up to individual employers to decide which staff are furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Remove firms discretion and obligate firms to furlough employees where eligible: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312611

Allow employees to claim the 80% income support directly from the Government: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/311183

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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/