Change the date to qualify for the furlough scheme

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

To extend the qualifying criteria for employees to become included in the current furlough scheme to include seasonal workers who signed a contract before the crisis, but did not commence employment until after the qualifying date. For example holiday accommodation workers.

There are a large number of people who signed a contract for employment during the winter, but because the employment did not begin until April or May, did not qualify for the current scheme. It is unfortunate that such cases missed the boat by a few weeks, yet will face severe financial hardship until they can return to work. Can the scheme be amended to include these 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 some of these petitions:

Change the Furlough Support Scheme to include new hires after 28th February: Change the Furlough Support Scheme to include new hires after 28th February.

Pay those who had job offers retracted 80% of the wage they would have earned: Pay those who had job offers retracted 80% of the wage they would have earned.

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

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

12 May 2020	Petition opened for signatures
1 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Jun 2020

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