Make national holidays based on all religions

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

We want the government to take non-Christian religious holidays and events into consideration. It is unfair that people from the religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and many other religions don’t have scheduled days to take time off.

School being open is unfair and their absence counts towards their attendance figure, due to something they can’t miss. This may lead to the students being viewed as bad and unserious about their education, therefore giving them unequal chances when they are applying for college or sixth form.

Furthermore most of these events are a day, we are not saying to cancel Christmas , Hanukkah and Easter but to allow others to have a day off as well, to ensure everything is fair and convenient.

Why it was rejected

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

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you would like to see important religious days from all religions becoming national holidays, but it is not clear which days specifically.

We currently have the below petition open which you might like to sign:
All workers to be given rights to take paid leave to observe religious holidays
All workers to be given rights to take paid leave to observe religious holidays

You could start a new petition calling for schools to be required to authorise absences for any religious holidays if that is something you would like to see happen.

Timeline

1 Oct 2021	Petition opened for signatures
6 Oct 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Oct 2021

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