The Government has been urged to "come clean" over plans for employees' rights in the midst of the P&0 Ferries scandal.
800 members of staff were sacked by the ferries firm last month and replaced with agency workers who earned less than the UK minimum wage. P&O has faced heavy criticism since it announced the mass redundancies and a number of protests have taken place at the Port of Liverpool in Seaforth.
A demonstration on March 18 was attended by Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Sefton Central MP Bill Esterson. Mr Rotheram called the firings a "disgrace", Mr Burnham called for a boycott of the company, while Mr Esterson said: “For loyal workers with years of experience to be summarily sacked with no warning at all is an outrage. It is draconian and Dickensian from P&O’s parent company DP World.
