8:00am this morning, @HMRCgovuk 🇬🇧 opened the #jobrejectionscheme for applications.
By 4:00pm on this first day, over 140,000 businesses have applied. The grants they receive will help pay for the wages of over 1,000,000 people - people who otherwise could have lost their jobs.
THREAD- With the new Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme available many constituents have contacted me as they've been unable to be placed on the scheme.
I've written to the Chancellor @RishiSunak to raise these issues urgently & urge the Treasury to make several changes.👇 1/8
Meet Mark, an ex serviceman with a wife on the NHS front line and two young daughters.
He started a new job recently, so now he has been left with nothing.
@RishiSunak promised to protect servicemen and women. So why is he still ignoring #newstarterfurlough?
#NewStarterJustice
@AnnelieseDodds@jreynoldsMP Please keep pushing @RishiSunak for a solution To this gap we are facing! We can prove we are legit employers we can prove we are tax payers please keep supporting us it’s not fair we are forgotten! We like everyone else#jobrejectionscheme #Newstarterjustice#newstarterfurlough
🎙Announced: March 20th.
📝Delivered: April 20th.
Let me put on record my thanks to the many thousands of people in @HMRCgovuk and @hmtreasury who've been working night and day to get the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme system up and running.
Apply now: https://t.co/Y6ulSecuwI
These are just some of the thousands of new starters, with their proof of legitimate employment, who have have been left behind with no income.
We are not collateral damage. We are real people, with real lives. We are #NewStarterJustice#JobRejectionScheme