Increase statutory sick pay during Corona virus to help the self employed.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Increase statutory sick pay during Coronavirus to help the 5 million self-employed people. Many self employed people have had there work cancelled due to Coronavirus and have no income causing them to struggle.

The government have helped many people financially but seem to have forgotten about the self employed, £94 a week is ridiculously low budget for anyone to live on.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:

Include self-employed in statutory sick pay during Coronavirus
Increase Statutory Sick Pay

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Timeline

20 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Mar 2020

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