Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has called for the boss of P&O Ferries to resign and vowed to force the company to pay its crews the minimum wage.
It comes after chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite admitted the ferry giant broke employment law when it sacked 800 workers without notice. Mr Hebblethwaite told a Commons hearing on Thursday (March 24) that the company made the choice to sack staff without consultation, thus breaking the law, because: "no union could accept our proposals".
P&O has faced heavy criticism since it announced the mass redundancies. Hundreds of people gathered outside the main entrance of the Port of Liverpool in Seaforth on March 18 in protest against the sackings.
