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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rob Merrick

‘No powers’ to prosecute P&O despite firm admitting it broke law in sacking 800 workers, government concedes

PA

P&O Ferries will not be taken to court by the government despite admitting it broke the law by sacking 800 workers without consulting them, a minister has admitted.

MPs were told that – because of looser redundancy laws in the UK than other countries – the workers would have to take a firm to an industrial tribunal themselves.

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