Rejected petition Adapt the Job Retention Scheme to include employer pay like Germany's Kurzarbeit

Adopt the Kurzarbeit protection scheme by splitting workers' wage payment between government and employer:

. Allow firms to pay workers half of their wage for reduced hours of working where possible.

. Commit the government to supporting ~60% of the remaining half of these workers' wages.

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Due to COVID, workers costing more than they produce are furloughed, meaning by law they can't work and don't produce for the economy.

However many of these workers can do some work. By working reduced hours for remote working, many workers could earn more than they do when furloughed, companies can produce more with reduced wage burden, and the government pays less than under JRS.

Whereas JRS is new, Germany continues to use Kurzarbeit after the financial crisis as an effective policy.

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Since you started your petition the Government has announced that new flexibility will be introduced to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from August to get employees back to work and boost economy: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-extends-furlough-scheme-until-october

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Change restrictions on furloughed workers so they can still work and contribute: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309635

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 6 May 2020
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