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P&O Ferries ships will be blocked from sailing if they fail safety checks, says Government

Grant Shapps confirmed P&O Ferries could face “criminal prosecution and unlimited fines”

Wales Online · Mar 21, 2022

P&O Ferries: Tories 'show contempt' for workers as MPs ignore bid to end fire and rehire

MPs refuse to back a Labour motion to strengthen workers' rights - and give P&O staff their jobs back - after "shameful" mass sacking of 800 workers without consultation or warning

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2022

Tory ministers accused of 'endorsing thuggish fire and rehire tactics of P&O'

It came as Tory MPs abstained in a vote that would pave the way to end P&O-style fire and rehire practices

Liverpool Echo · Mar 21, 2022

P&O Ferries owner to benefit from at least £50m of UK freeport scheme

Dubai-based DP World runs shipping terminals at Southampton and London Gateway

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2022

P&O Ferries: Tory ministers told to trigger immediate 'criminal action' against firm for sacking 800 workers

Labour's Lou Haigh said the Government can bring legal action straight away under the Trade Union Act after firm's "shameful" actions

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2022

Government knew of ‘game plan’ for P&O Ferries mass redundancies, says Labour

‘There is no excuse for what we saw last Thursday,’ said the transport secretary, Grant Shapps

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

Replacements for P&O Ferries crew paid £1.80 an hour, unions say

RMT says agency rates for seafarers are ‘gut-wrenching betrayal’ of 800 sacked British staff

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2022

P&O Ferries accused of paying agency staff just £1.81 an hour

P&O Ferries has been accused of paying as little as £1.81 an hour to agency staff who replaced workers on its ships.

Evening Standard · Mar 21, 2022

‘Grotesquely exploitative’ P&O Ferries previously paid foreign workers as little as £1.82 an hour

MP Karl Turner made the unsettling claims about P&O Ferries, adding that migrant staff worked 12-hour shifts and had to stay in tents and hotels

Wales Online · Mar 21, 2022

P&O using foreign agency workers ‘earning £1.81 an hour’ after 800 UK staff sacked, union claims

P&O continues to face backlash after hundreds of workers fire over Zoom call

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022