Petition · past parliament

Make Furlough Available for People Not Just Businesses

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

1. Make furlough available through job centers for people who being made redundant after a number of month of furlough.
2. Businesses proposed mass redundancies ignoring the extended furlough scheme put under investigation to determine that grants from GOV aren't only used to reduce workforce
1 To protect those Billions of pounds invested so far into the British economy to protect jobs and don't let it go to waste Government must follow through.
2 Large companies going ahead with mass redundancies regardless extended support GOV should consider banning of all redundancies for the period of extended Furlough.
3 Grants payed out for large companies by GOV to protect jobs seems to be a tool to earn time on Tax payer expense for a better redundancy strategy.

Why it was rejected

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

Timeline

22 Nov 2020 Petition opened for signatures
17 Dec 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 17 Dec 2020

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