Help employers to provide extra paid leave for parents during school closures.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government should make funds available to employers so that working parents can be given additional leave to provide home learning while schools are closed.

1) So that the mental, emotional and educational wellbeing of working parents and their children is protected.
2) So that businesses are protected
3) So that gender equality is not set fruther back by the pandemic

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 this petition calling for a similar action: Pay parents that have to take time off due to school covid closures

Timeline

7 Jan 2021	Petition opened for signatures
14 Jan 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 14 Jan 2021

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