Petition · past parliament
Make it a legal requirement for job advertisments to state a specific salary.
Rejected
16 signatures
What the petition asks
To prevent employers from posting vauge, inaccurate salaries on job advertisements. For example - "Competitive" "Depending on experience" and absurd ranges : e.g £9.50/hour - £30/hour and other various forms of non-specific information are not acceptable.
The British people are tired of being exploited. It is a complete waste of an applicants time to have to contact a company and get to an interview stage before the other shoe drops. They should be able to decide whether or not to apply for a job based on its salary. Some job adverts do not state a salary at all. Its time employers wake up to why people don't want to work for them. Wages are already too low in the UK, the cost of living is high, and this practice just makes it more difficult.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 5 Jul 2022 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 11 Jul 2022 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
16
Status
Rejected
Rejected
11 Jul 2022
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.