Unions are accusing the Government of failing to strengthen workers’ protections a year after the sacking of hundreds of P&O Ferries employees, saying rogue employers are being given a “free pass to act with impunity”.
The TUC said ministers had failed to act on a series of breaches of the law and had not closed loopholes in minimum wage law, warning that without Government action, another P&O Ferries-style “scandal” could happen.
The union organisation set out four breaches of law by P&O Ferries it claimed had gone unpunished, including a duty to consult over redundancies, unfair dismissal of workers, failure to notify the relevant Government authorities, and breach of director duties.
