Rejected petition Extend furlough for restricted sectors

Please extend the furlough scheme in restricted sectors to protect jobs and make sure the businesses can get up and running as quickly as possible once restrictions are fully lifted.

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The current arrangement for furlough is not taking into account the asymmetric nature of the businesses that are still affected by the virus and will be unable to open in any meaningful way by the end of October. I want the government to allow industries such as aviation, travel, music, theatre and tourism to have furlough extended so that they can have a workforce ready for when they can fully reopen.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549219

You might also like to sign these sector-specific petitions:

Travel - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549014
Theatre and Live Music - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329174
Aviation - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331434
Events - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/330804

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Date submitted 12 September 2020
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