Submitted by Siobhan Guite on Wednesday 8th April 2020
Published on Monday 15th June 2020
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Signatures: 46
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Atlantic ~ Covid ~ Covid-19 ~ Ensure ~ furlough ~ John Lewis ~ Lewis ~ Liverpool ~ Liverpool FC ~ Money ~ paying ~ Staff ~ Virgin Atlantic
Stop Multi Million pound companies claiming government funded furlough payments
The Government is helping protect jobs by paying up to 80% of staff wages, including for Virgin Atlantic who in 2018 saw revenue increase by £150m to £2.8bn, John Lewis, which in 2018 was valued at £4.8bn. Liverpool FC, who had turnover of £533ml in 2019, also considered using this scheme.
Organisations with this amount of income or wealth should not be eligible to apply for this scheme. They should not be relying on government funds and therefore taxpayers’ money to cover the salaries of their staff. This scheme should be reserved for organisations who really need government support.
This purpose of this petition is to ask the Government to put restrictions on this scheme to ensure it is not used or abused by wealthy companies.
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