Petitions tagged with "Unemployment"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Repeal the decision to implement compulsory face coverings in English shops.
  Open from Tuesday 21st July 2020 to Thursday 21st January 2021
  39,615 signatures

• Allow open-air swimming pools, lidos & lakes to open in a new Covid-19 lockdown
  Open from Monday 26th October 2020 to Monday 26th April 2021
  31,735 signatures

• Keep the small claims track limit for personal injury claims at £1,000.00
  Open from Thursday 26th November 2015 to Thursday 26th May 2016
  24,398 signatures

• Require local authorities to have free helplines for the homeless and vulnerable
  Open from Thursday 3rd December 2020 to Thursday 3rd June 2021
  18,318 signatures

• Increase funding for veteran-led organisation supporting veterans into work
  Opened on Tuesday 17th March 2026
  14,903 signatures so far

• Negotiate re-entry to the Single Market
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  12,966 signatures

• Keep tax-free sales at airports and the VAT Retail Export Scheme
  Open from Thursday 29th October 2020 to Thursday 29th April 2021
  12,664 signatures

• Cap energy price increases for small businesses.
  Open from Thursday 7th July 2022 to Saturday 21st January 2023
  7,549 signatures

• Temporarily allow early retirement to reduce unemployment caused by COVID
  Open from Wednesday 6th January 2021 to Tuesday 6th July 2021
  7,384 signatures

• Prescription Charges Campaign
  Open from Tuesday 6th December 2011 to Thursday 6th December 2012
  6,971 signatures

• Extend the Furlough Support Scheme to include new hires after 30th October.
  Open from Tuesday 29th December 2020 to Tuesday 29th June 2021
  6,657 signatures

• Create a UK Jobs Guarantee Scheme covering every young person in need of work
  Open from Tuesday 27th October 2020 to Tuesday 27th April 2021
  5,517 signatures

• Start dredging our waterways in the UK to assist in preventing flooding
  Open from Monday 14th December 2015 to Tuesday 14th June 2016
  5,159 signatures

• Increase minimum wage to £9 per hour starting 2014-2015
  Open from Friday 22nd November 2013 to Saturday 22nd November 2014
  4,308 signatures

• Legal right for deaf people to receive support from registered communication professionals
  Open from Monday 6th January 2014 to Sunday 6th July 2014
  4,019 signatures

• Create an ‘Adult ADHD strategy’ to improve diagnosis and treatment
  Open from Monday 18th July 2022 to Wednesday 1st February 2023
  3,254 signatures

• Introduce an unconditional, Universal Basic Income
  Open from Thursday 23rd March 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
  2,894 signatures

• Fund more permanent NHS roles for newly qualified student nurses
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  2,444 signatures so far

• 16-18 apprenticeship funding rate reduction
  Open from Thursday 26th January 2012 to Thursday 26th April 2012
  2,427 signatures

• Government subsidise this year's university tuition fees
  Open from Monday 5th October 2020 to Monday 5th April 2021
  1,918 signatures

• Housing Benefit ending under 25s
  Open from Tuesday 26th June 2012 to Wednesday 26th December 2012
  1,861 signatures

• Require councils to suspend council tax increases for year 2021/2022
  Open from Wednesday 3rd February 2021 to Tuesday 3rd August 2021
  1,587 signatures

• Stop ALL immigration into the UK
  Open from Monday 8th August 2011 to Wednesday 8th August 2012
  1,553 signatures

• Calling for a future that works
  Open from Monday 22nd October 2012 to Tuesday 22nd October 2013
  1,295 signatures

• Allow elderly disabled people to claim the state pension early
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  1,154 signatures

• Open a train station at Abertillery
  Open from Tuesday 7th January 2014 to Monday 7th July 2014
  1,113 signatures

• Introduce an unconditional, Universal Basic Income
  Open from Tuesday 12th September 2017 to Monday 12th March 2018
  1,084 signatures

• carers allowance
  Open from Tuesday 22nd April 2014 to Monday 30th March 2015
  1,059 signatures

• No more tax rises in this Parliament
  Open from Thursday 31st July 2025 to Saturday 31st January 2026
  968 signatures

• Stop driverless cars coming to UK
  Opened on Wednesday 17th December 2025
  945 signatures so far

• SAVE 100,000 jobs in the Legal Industry
  Open from Thursday 21st March 2013 to Friday 21st June 2013
  915 signatures

• Fund access to GLP-1 medications through the NHS for women with PCOS
  Open from Tuesday 14th January 2025 to Monday 14th July 2025
  840 signatures

• Don't change Sunday trading rules during Olympics
  Open from Monday 19th March 2012 to Tuesday 19th June 2012
  821 signatures

• Stop The Cuts To Bus Services In Cornwall & West Penwith
  Open from Monday 23rd September 2013 to Monday 23rd December 2013
  752 signatures

• Do not disband 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
  Open from Monday 9th July 2012 to Tuesday 9th July 2013
  593 signatures

• Introduce a new Employers' Employment Incentive to employ out of work jobseekers
  Open from Friday 11th December 2020 to Friday 11th June 2021
  588 signatures

• Fund state support for young people aged 18-25 who leave the care system
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  570 signatures so far

• Fund more doctor postgraduate training posts in the NHS
  Open from Tuesday 25th March 2025 to Thursday 25th September 2025
  553 signatures

• Ban unpaid internships
  Open from Monday 20th July 2015 to Wednesday 20th January 2016
  438 signatures

• RAISE ISSUE OF PERSECUTION OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS WITH MUGABE REGIME IN ZIMBABWE
  Open from Monday 19th September 2016 to Sunday 19th March 2017
  436 signatures

• Provide Loans to Healthcare students wishing to study abroad due to COVID-19
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  331 signatures

• Make "ghost jobs" illegal
  Open from Friday 14th March 2025 to Sunday 14th September 2025
  329 signatures

• Replacement of unemployment benefits with a Community Service payment
  Open from Monday 8th August 2011 to Wednesday 8th August 2012
  302 signatures

• Extend business rates holiday for retail & hospitality businesses
  Open from Thursday 15th October 2020 to Thursday 15th April 2021
  294 signatures

• Provide increased support to the cinema industry to protect it and employees
  Open from Monday 12th October 2020 to Monday 12th April 2021
  287 signatures

• Fix the age for entitlement to the state pension to 60 for both men and women
  Open from Wednesday 15th June 2016 to Thursday 15th December 2016
  234 signatures

• Get Student Finance England to consider a mortgage as ‘financial independence’.
  Open from Friday 15th June 2018 to Saturday 15th December 2018
  234 signatures

• Bring back 75% business rates relief for retail, hospitality & leisure sectors
  Opened on Monday 9th February 2026
  219 signatures so far

• AWR (Agency Workers Regulations) Stop this Law
  Open from Wednesday 14th September 2011 to Friday 14th September 2012
  216 signatures

• Stop Caradog House Jobcentre Closure
  Open from Thursday 18th August 2011 to Friday 18th November 2011
  214 signatures

• Government funding required for an autism training support scheme
  Open from Monday 12th July 2021 to Wednesday 12th January 2022
  199 signatures

• Reduce the 5 day working week to 34.5 hours over 4 days for the same pay.
  Open from Friday 5th February 2016 to Friday 5th August 2016
  195 signatures

• Cease foreign aid during covid-19 and use the funds to support UK economy
  Open from Tuesday 20th October 2020 to Tuesday 20th April 2021
  194 signatures

• Reinstatement of sure start Maternity Grant for every new born child in U.K
  Open from Monday 14th September 2015 to Monday 14th March 2016
  165 signatures

• Unemployment and behaviour rehabilitation. National service.
  Open from Friday 19th August 2016 to Sunday 19th February 2017
  162 signatures

• It should never be more profitable to live on benefits than have a job
  Open from Monday 8th August 2011 to Wednesday 8th August 2012
  158 signatures

• Increase ALL unemployed benefits by an extra £20 a week due to Covid-19.
  Open from Wednesday 13th January 2021 to Tuesday 13th July 2021
  151 signatures

• Bristol Channel Offshore Wind Farm objection
  Open from Wednesday 12th September 2012 to Thursday 12th September 2013
  149 signatures

• Do not introduce a pay per mile road tax
  Open from Thursday 24th March 2022 to Saturday 8th October 2022
  129 signatures

• Commission an inquiry into the underemployment of disabled people
  Open from Friday 4th December 2020 to Friday 4th June 2021
  128 signatures

• Stop EU Immigration
  Open from Friday 4th November 2011 to Sunday 4th November 2012
  120 signatures

• Bring back state pension for women who are 60 in 2013 / 2014 / 2015
  Open from Wednesday 26th September 2012 to Thursday 26th September 2013
  117 signatures

• Stop DFE from closing only ofcom outstanding nursery in Halton
  Open from Thursday 15th May 2014 to Friday 15th August 2014
  117 signatures

• Set up a National Nature Service to tackle the climate and unemployment crisis
  Open from Tuesday 9th February 2021 to Monday 9th August 2021
  107 signatures

• Improve employability by improving and re-instating mandatory work experience at year 10
  Open from Monday 20th May 2013 to Wednesday 20th November 2013
  106 signatures

• Unemployment benefits to stop after 2 years of claiming
  Open from Tuesday 28th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
  105 signatures

• Review and Regulate AI to Protect Jobs and Prevent Mass Unemployment
  Opened on Thursday 15th January 2026
  101 signatures so far

• Stop the EU dictating UK benefits policy - Say No to unemployed EU citizens taking part in UK Benefits Tourism
  Open from Monday 3rd October 2011 to Tuesday 3rd April 2012
  100 signatures

• Increase £30,000 redundancy pay tax free threshold to £60,000 or fully tax free.
  Open from Thursday 13th August 2020 to Saturday 13th February 2021
  94 signatures

• Fund support for UK companies to create more internships & jobs for young people
  Opened on Monday 16th March 2026
  94 signatures so far

• The introduction of a National Service for ages 18 - 21 for the unemployed
  Open from Friday 7th August 2015 to Sunday 7th February 2016
  94 signatures

• Supporting young people into gaining employability skills for the world of work
  Open from Monday 7th January 2013 to Monday 7th October 2013
  93 signatures

• Make it free to train as a nurse.
  Open from Tuesday 13th July 2021 to Thursday 13th January 2022
  92 signatures

• Reduce maximum weekly working hours to 30, increase minimum wage to £15 per hour
  Open from Monday 12th April 2021 to Tuesday 12th October 2021
  90 signatures

• Anyone on unemployment benefit to report to their local council at 9 am on weekdays for work
  Open from Monday 8th August 2011 to Tuesday 8th November 2011
  83 signatures

• Remove the requirement to sit a trailer towing test b+e
  Open from Monday 26th July 2021 to Wednesday 26th January 2022
  83 signatures

• Save Dartford Waitrose
  Open from Friday 4th October 2013 to Saturday 4th January 2014
  80 signatures

• Require employers & recruiters to give specific reasons for job rejections
  Open from Thursday 6th March 2025 to Saturday 6th September 2025
  77 signatures

• Ban the use of AI in job recruitment processes
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  74 signatures so far

• Base childcare support for working parents on household income
  Open from Friday 2nd May 2025 to Sunday 2nd November 2025
  74 signatures

• Lower retirement age to open up jobs for the young.
  Open from Friday 12th August 2011 to Sunday 12th August 2012
  71 signatures

• Introduce a Universal Basic Income in the next Budget
  Open from Thursday 25th February 2021 to Wednesday 25th August 2021
  71 signatures

• Add more life skills to the national curriculum for secondary education
  Open from Thursday 17th April 2025 to Friday 17th October 2025
  70 signatures

• Establish a "First Job" Tax break for Young Workers
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  69 signatures

• Deter Employers recruiting abroad with a National Insurance Accelorator to Employers N.I. contributions.
  Open from Thursday 19th January 2012 to Saturday 19th January 2013
  66 signatures

• Mandate AI job impact assessments and transition support for UK workers
  Open from Tuesday 29th July 2025 to Thursday 29th January 2026
  64 signatures

• Allow schools, universities, restaurants and shops to open in March
  Open from Thursday 4th February 2021 to Wednesday 4th August 2021
  63 signatures

• Bring back the Education Maintenance Allowance for eligible students in England
  Open from Monday 21st February 2022 to Sunday 21st August 2022
  60 signatures

• Stop all DWP benefit payment sanctions immediately.
  Open from Wednesday 28th September 2016 to Tuesday 28th March 2017
  57 signatures

• Bring back national service
  Open from Monday 14th September 2015 to Monday 14th March 2016
  55 signatures

• Bring back national service for school leavers who do not wish to further educat
  Open from Thursday 7th April 2016 to Friday 7th October 2016
  54 signatures

• Elmbridge Borough to become 33rd London borough following EU referendum
  Open from Thursday 14th July 2016 to Saturday 14th January 2017
  53 signatures

• Referendum: Switch from EU/Single Market to EFTA/Single Market
  Open from Wednesday 18th June 2014 to Thursday 18th September 2014
  53 signatures

• Make changes to the child maintenance service
  Open from Friday 24th February 2017 to Tuesday 2nd May 2017
  52 signatures

• Make employabilty and entrepreneurial skills compulsory in British Curriculum
  Open from Thursday 29th January 2015 to Monday 30th March 2015
  51 signatures

• Suspend International Aid
  Open from Monday 11th February 2013 to Tuesday 11th February 2014
  48 signatures

• Personally apologise to HM Forces personnel dismissed due to their sexuality.
  Open from Tuesday 30th August 2016 to Tuesday 28th February 2017
  48 signatures

• Scrap the Value Added Tax
  Open from Monday 14th September 2015 to Monday 14th March 2016
  47 signatures

• Establish a residential programme of social & practical skills for young people
  Open from Friday 18th September 2020 to Thursday 18th March 2021
  47 signatures

• Adapt and Adopt Italy's Marcora Law and Mutualistic Fund Scheme
  Open from Wednesday 22nd July 2020 to Friday 22nd January 2021
  46 signatures

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