Rejected petition Allow employees who have been made redundant have access to the JRS

Covid19 has impacted thousands of staff who recently got made redundant from the impact of covid19 want to change the job retention scheme to allow anyone who’s been made redundant to still have access whilst the scheme is still available to furloughed staff.

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This has impacted too many people who were in secure jobs providing for families. Many of us have been made Homeless with no funds to Seek alternative accommodation at this difficult time. With no income or job it’s extremely difficult to rent. Also many are not entitled to any benefits.

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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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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Remove firms discretion and obligate firms to furlough employees where eligible: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312611

Allow employees to claim the 80% income support directly from the Government: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/311183

Pay salary for all who lose their jobs during this pandemic: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304185

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 27 May 2020
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