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Extend Furlough to those who changed jobs in March and April.

Submitted on Tuesday 21st April 2020

Rejected on Monday 1st June 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Extend Furlough to those who changed jobs in March and April.

Petition Details

Extend the criteria For those who had written job offers in place before the furlough date in March.

Additional Information

I had my job offer early March and worked my month notice, my employer replaced me with two people, therefore unable to re-hire me. New employer can’t furlough me. There are thousands of us with no income, and benefits not covering essential bills.


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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 this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310679

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