Petition · past parliament

Pay workers in nursing home 80% of their wages if they test positive for Covid19

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Pay key workers such as nurse and care staff 80% of their wage if they are off sick with positive COVID when they are expected to work with cases in private companies.
Government or private companies should have to pay their nurses and care staff 80% of their wage if they test positive for COVID19 when they are looking after it at the work place.

Why it was rejected

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

We think this petition is similar:

Ensure care workers get full pay from day one of Coronavirus-related absence:
Ensure care workers get full pay from day one of Coronavirus-related absence.

Timeline

29 Apr 2020 Petition opened for signatures
9 Jul 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 9 Jul 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.