Abolish Guaranteed pay scheme

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

The guaranteed pay scheme (seems to have been started 2018 but not sure) means that those who have a flexibility clause within their contract for short time working of lay off (zero hour contracts) still get paid £30 per day for a maximum 5 days.
Small/medium businesses can’t afford this!

The whole point of small/medium businesses having zero hour contracts is because they simply can’t afford to pay staff when business is slow (seasonal) especially in this pandemic.
Staff who sign a contract with a flexible clause in (zero hour) accept this by doing so. Most staff on these contracts will work more hours (overtime) in peak times to offset.
This law has been sneaked in by government and will sink businesses.
Protect your jobs and sign this otherwise more company’s will go under.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The right to guaranteed pay kicks in if an employee is not provided with any work and pay for a day on which they are contracted to work (a ‘workless day’). It applies in a very specific context where an employer has a legal right to send an employee home without pay (a ‘lay off clause’).

Zero-hours workers do not have a right to guaranteed pay. This is because: a. they are usually not ‘employees’ (i.e. they do not work under a contract of employment); and b. they do not have any minimum guaranteed hours so it is not possible for them to have a ‘workless day’.

It is therefore not clear what else you would like the Government to do.

Timeline

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

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 12 Oct 2020

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