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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rob Merrick

Fury as government promises to boost worker protections shelved again, despite P&O sackings

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Plans to boost protections for workers are set to be shelved again, despite P&O’s mass sackings of its staff, triggering union protests that they are being “betrayed”.

The long-promised Employment Bill will be dropped from next month’s Queen’s Speech, government officials have said – the second successive year it has been put on ice.

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