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Change the parameters for furlough qualification

Submitted on Friday 24th April 2020

Rejected on Monday 1st June 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change the parameters for furlough qualification

Petition Details

To adhere to the original statement on furlough to include empoloyees on company payrolls before 19th March rather than the PAYE (RTI) submission for that date as this excludes monthly paid employees who were employed prior to 19th March but not actually paid until after this date.

Additional Information

Because the original statement misled companies and employees and the revised arrangents disadvantage monthly paid staff who would otherwise qualify as being on payroll before 19th March.


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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/317231

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