Leaders of more than 30 trade unions have written to business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng in the wake of the mass dismissal of 800 P&O seafarers, to demand a timetable for the introduction of legislation to protect workers first promised by the government more than two years ago.
The unions, led by Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady, said that P&O Ferries was able to treat its workers as “disposable” because of weaknesses in the UK employment law which permit fire-and-rehire tactics.
