Cheaper foreign agency staff who were taken on by P&O Ferries after 800 seafarers were fired over Zoom have reportedly been offered even less wages in a new contract. Unions claim staff who were taken on a month ago have been offered new contracts with lower rates of pay.
Workers say chefs paid £2,336 a month on temporary contracts were asked to sign new deals giving them £195 a month less, reports The Mirror. Some crew earn just £748 a month for a 40-hour week – £4.30 an hour.
The new crew was hired through Malta-based International Ferry Management, set up in February. In the email seen by the Sunday Mirror, a Romanian chef claimed IFM and P&O were trying to make agency crew sign new contracts.
