Agency workers aboard a P&O ferry make less than £3 an hour and have to live on the ship for months at a time, it has been alleged. The largely Filipino crew on P&O’s superferry, the Pride of Rotterdam, are employed on six-month contracts through an agency, with no guarantee of returning.
A P&O source, who wished to remain anonymous, said the agency staff made between roughly £916 and £1,298 a month, equating to less than £3 an hour on their 11-hour day, seven days a week rota. Now Hull East MP Karl Turner has described the working conditions as like the crew living on a ‘floating prison’.
P&O have not responded to a request to comment on the allegations, reports HullLive. The allegations were made as Hull Live went on board P&O’s first sailing from the port city since bosses sacked 800 workers by video on March 17. The move was slammed by staff, unions, MPs and led to calls for a boycott of the Dubai-owned company and a backlash against the established brand.
