Introduce mental health days for people effected with mental health.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Allow workers to take mental health days that will not effect their attendance at work. Sometimes a single day to recuperate is needed in order to boost someone's mental health.

"More than 15 million people - 30% of the UK population - live with one or more long-term conditions, and more than 4 million of these people will also have mental health problems." - Mental health foundation

We need help the millions of people who suffering with long term mental health conditions, As a teacher mental health is something many teachers suffer and we as a collective need to allow people to actually care for their selves.

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 want people to be entitled to additional time off work for their mental health, but it's not clear what arrangements you want to apply to these days - for example whether they need to be agreed with the employer (like annual leave), and what if any pay employees should be entitled to on these days (as different arrangements apply to annual leave, sick leave and other types of leave).

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

11 May 2023	Petition opened for signatures
15 May 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 May 2023

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