Extend the furlough scheme to seasonal workers · petition

What the petition asks

I was working in a hotel for the winter season when the lockdown started. I was fired along with all the other staff just before the furlough scheme was announced. My employer states that the furlough scheme is not for workers on fixed term contracts so will not re-employ me and pay me 80%.

I was working in the Alps for a UK company and paying UK tax and national insurance through PAYE. My contract was from December 2019 to April 2019, this contract was cut short and I was paid up to March 22nd. I am now unemployed, and unable to take up my planned employment in different hotel for the summer season because that hotel is also closed. Exclusion from the furlough scheme leaves me without income, even though I was in full time employment during March.

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 some of these petitions:

Remove firms discretion and obligate firms to furlough employees where eligible: Remove firms discretion and obligate firms to furlough employees where eligible.

Allow employees to claim the 80% income support directly from the Government: Allow employees to claim the 80% income support directly from the Government

Introduce Compensation for seasonal workers due to Covid-19: Introduce Compensation for seasonal workers due to Covid-19

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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

21 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
1 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee