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Raise minimum wage for key workers.

Submitted on Friday 24th April 2020

Rejected on Monday 6th July 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Raise minimum wage for key workers.

Petition Details

Raise the minimum wage for what are now recognised as key workers, defined by the government during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Additional Information

Because it's right.


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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 some of these petitions:

Identify and reward all key workers due to Covid-19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308903

Consider how to compensate key workers for their efforts during Covid-19 crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308172

Make hazard pay mandatory for key workers in the midst of COVID 19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307619

Give all key workers a 100% tax and Nat. Ins. holiday through COVID-19 crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306845

Pay bonus to all key workers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307215

Pay Key Workers 2 weeks full pay if they have to isolate: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309104

### Further information

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/


Find out the latest updates from Parliament on the COVID-19 outbreak, including ways that you can get involved: www.parliament.uk/business/news/covid-19/

Are you an academic or researcher? Find out how you can help Parliament scrutinise the Government’s response to coronavirus: www.parliament.uk/covid19-researcher-engagement


### What the Petitions Committee is doing


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

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