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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Business
Graham Hiscott

P&O DID deliberately break law over shameful mass sackings as CEO in shameful admission

P&O Ferries knew it was breaking employment law by axing 800 seafarers without consulting unions but did it anyway, its chief executive said yesterday.

Peter Hebblethwaite told a Commons hearing he would do the same again as he confirmed replacement workers were being paid less than the UK minimum.

MPs called for him to be prosecuted. Labour’s Darren Jones asked the boss: “Are you in this mess because you don’t know what you are doing or because you are a shameless criminal?”

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