Extend furlough for restricted sectors

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Please extend the furlough scheme in restricted sectors to protect jobs and make sure the businesses can get up and running as quickly as possible once restrictions are fully lifted.

The current arrangement for furlough is not taking into account the asymmetric nature of the businesses that are still affected by the virus and will be unable to open in any meaningful way by the end of October. I want the government to allow industries such as aviation, travel, music, theatre and tourism to have furlough extended so that they can have a workforce ready for when they can fully reopen.

Why it was rejected

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

Extend furlough for those businesses required to stay shut

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Theatre and Live Music - Extend furlough scheme for theatre and live music industry.
Aviation - Extend furlough scheme for the UK Aviation sector to help stop redundancies
Events - Extend the government furlough scheme to those working in the events sector.

Timeline

12 Sep 2020	Petition opened for signatures
8 Oct 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 8 Oct 2020

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