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Change the date for an employee to be accepted for furlough to the 31st of March

Submitted on Tuesday 21st April 2020

Rejected on Friday 24th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change the date for an employee to be accepted for furlough to the 31st of March

Petition Details

CoronaVirus Job retention scheme Was set up to prefect works livelihoods and income. The cut of date for you to be considered is the 19th of March. 80% of the uk is paid monthly which means that thousands of workers do not qualify if they have started a new Job within March.

Additional Information

Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer said he would not leave anyone behind!

Change the date untill the 31st of the month. Change the date so that hard working people do not get left behind.

You have changed things for self employed and directors, please change things so that hard working staff do not get left behind!


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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

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/

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