To allow employees to apply for Job Retention Scheme if employer fails to apply · petition

What the petition asks

Some employers do not wish to apply for COVID support (Job Retention Scheme) due to economic or admin burden for them, some might fail to apply due to lack of resources. Government should open scheme for employees to apply directly if they were omitted from the scheme who would otherwise qualify

Employees rely on their employers to receive grant covering 80% of their wages. Employees should not be left at the mercy of employers and should not be penalised by the fact that some employers might not make applications. Government should open a scheme for those who would normally be eligible but who missed our as their employers did not apply. Agency workers and those on 0 hours contracts are mostly affected. If employer did not apply scheme should allow direct aplications by employees.

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 this petition calling for the same action: Allow employees to claim the 80% income support directly from the Government

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

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://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: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://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: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

1 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
22 May 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee