Submitted on Thursday 30th April 2020
Rejected on Monday 1st June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Government to pay wages of social care workers that have contracted Covid-19
Millions of workers in the UK have been furloughed and are allowed to stay at home and receive 80% of their wages. Any member of social care staff who contracts the Covid-19 are required to self isolate and will only receive SSP during this period. This seems very unfair in the scheme of things.
These staff deserve to be paid in full for this period. Social care providers are unable to meet this cost themselves as they are already struggling under immense pressure from the virus, due to reduced income, increase agency costs and rocketing PPE costs.
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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.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307650
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