[Grant Shapps hits P&O Ferries with an ultimatum
that he will ban it from British ports unless
firm's bosses ditch 'sweatshop pay' policy
The Transport Secretary has given an ultimatum
to P&O Ferries on pay rates
The Government could ban maritime ferries
from operating in British ports if they
pay under the UK minimum wage.]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ay-policy.html

i think insisting on the uk minimum wage if they want to dock in the uk is perfectly reasonable otherwise it is slave labour

Excellent and it will then set a precident so other organisations don't attempt to drive down wages.

It sadly wouldn't solve anythibg for the staff that have just been fired... They can't now fire all the NEW staff and rehire the old ones... But at least it might stop anything similar happening in future. Also a nice pay bump for those new staff.

tbh if the staff that have left got a 45K payout each as has been suggested, they are probably okay with it especially if they get another job relatively soon or if they are close to pension age they are laughing

but yeah this type of thing should never happen again, not only for the workers but also for the safety of passengers.

But what if by putting every worker back on their pay
Bankrupts the Company
& it Closes down?

has the CEO taken a pay cut, maybe they should replace him with a cut price model?

That does not enter this deal


Leave him out of this

why should I, you said they were in trouble....he needs to take a massive pay cut like the workers

then it closes, too bad. It's just not acceptable for a company to say we are only viable if we employ slaves

Yes but they are about to Close Down


By changing to cheaper workers
they keep afloat.


Every Company that size
needs an active CEO.

That will be so sad.

The £45,000 was an average.

Presumably the ones that have been there for years will have got more than those who recently started ?


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Redundancy is capped at 20 years I think

he can be active, but the needs to take the hit same as his workers ....if he wants to keep the company alfloat ...all hands on deck as they say

Well it's the reverse of a cap really... "plugged" I guess is a better word... companies can pay out as much as they want for redundancy but there are statutory minimums that they have to pay for each year served up to 20 years. They CAN continue to pay more for each year beyond 20 if they want, there's no rule saying they can't. Most obviously do max out at 20 years though (pay as little as possible in other words).

In Parliament now P&O.

Labour put in an Urgent question

They are still to get the measures in
before Thursday
as Parliament then goes on a break.

Fair enough but someone who only started last week isn’t going to get too much, surely


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there is a statutory minimum of course, but the p&o line is that they basically exceeded all those minimums because they broke the law in doing what they did. I'm all for those axed workers taking p&o for everything they can get

Obviously there will be winners and losers but if I were a year or so out from my pension and I was offered 45K tax free to leave I would snap their hands off no doubt

There will be some staff who will not want to be forced back to work :laugh:

I’d be the same :)


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I read some were offered 100k.
So has this practice been outlawed now or not. ..whats to stop it happening again?

What if?... how can this company coninue to take full payment for services knowing they have violated their own company guidelines?

The CEO was Live on SkyNewsHD


A Scottish committee talking to him via his office on a screen.

What the CEO name

Time time to name and shame the CEO

765 out 786 have
started the process of redundancies

[The boss of P&O Ferries has hit back at government's calls
to reinstate the 800 workers it has sacked,
insisting, a U-turn would cause the firm's collapse.

CEO Peter Hebblethwaite said reversing the cuts,
which the firm did not consult unions on,
would lead to the loss of an additional 2,200 jobs.]

A 2nd Ship has been Detained
The Pride Of Dover, after failing inspection.

https://news.sky.com/story/another-p...andal-12577050

Now the P&O Ferry CEO
has written back to the Government
Saying he will not allow the old workers back.
Does the government want to destroy the company?

Sure but not in public

Sign of the times

in fairness they are doing a great job of that themselves

the government have no loyalty to p&o. It's not a british company, p&o sacked their british workforce, why would the government care if p&O survives or not

Look they can correct the problems
then set sail with the many lorrys
that will use them, right away

Are you a shareholder?

They are lucky there has not been an incident by the sounds of it

No not a Shareholder.
But if they (government) try to put back the Workers
the Company will Fold.


The Union Official is demanding Grant Shapps
does what he said he would
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...8380517614.jpg



Parliament Closes for a break on Thursday

Cherie
P&O Ferry has won this battle

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03...8380619994.jpg
Peter Hebblethwaite, P&O Ferries chief executive

Knows what he is doing

SOD P&O

Canary Wharf in east London.
matters more to Grant Shapps
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-w...wharf-12577407

Kizzy


Parliament now closed for the Easter break
Nothing has changed.


The CEO of P&O Ferrys
has won.

He will pay the Fine for not
talking to the sad union.


Many are now taking the Payout
as if you fight them, it could go on for months,
with no income.

i dont think its a win when p&o will have to pay minimum wage to all their new hires if the want to dock in the uk. Its also not a win when they have had to shell out a fortune in redundancy payments and now wont have cheap labour

Of Course it is a WIN

The Stupid Conservative Minister
said the 800 will get their jobs back