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P&O admits breaking law over sackings

The company replaced its crews with cheaper agency workers last week.

The Independent UK

New P&O ferry workers will be paid under UK minimum wage, admits boss who has £325,000 basic salary

800 workers were sacked by P&O Ferries without notice last week

Wales Online

P&O boss admits new staff paid just £5.50 an hour as he’s grilled by MPs over ferry safety

Peter Hebblethwaite also acknowledged the decision to sack the workers last week without consulting the unions broke the law

Evening Standard

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P&O Ferries admits paying new workers below UK minimum wage

The company's chief executive has given evidence to MPs

Birmingham Post

P&O boss admits company broke law as MPs demand immediate action

MPs investigating the sacking of 800 staff by P&O Ferries were left stunned by an admission by the company boss that they ignored the 'sham' of redundancy consultations demanded by law.

Daily Record

‘No powers’ to prosecute P&O despite firm admitting it broke law in sacking 800 workers, government concedes

It is up to ‘the individuals concerned’ to take the firm to a tribunal, minister tells MPs

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law by sacking staff without consultation

CEO tells MPs P&O aims to halve costs under ‘new model’ using seafarers paid just £5.15 an hour

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‘Are you just a shameless criminal?’: savage start to P&O Ferries questioning by Labour MP

Darren Jones shows no mercy following mass redunandancies

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries intentionally broke law over mass sackings, CEO Peter Hebblethwaite admits

‘We chose not to consult and we are - and will - compensate everybody in full for that,’ ferry company boss says

The Independent UK

P&O admits paying new ferry workers below UK minimum wage

Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite said the average pay of the new crew is only £5.15 per hour.

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law - and claims they warned Tories last YEAR

Chief Executive Peter Hebbelthwaite claimed the firm warned Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last year that P&O would be "needing to make changes to our business this year”

Daily Mirror

Furious protest at Scottish port over P&O's "illegal" sacking of staff

Sacked workers among protestors at ferry operator's Scottish base. They were replaced by £2 an hour foreign workers, leading to legal action against P&O by unions and UK government

Daily Record

P&O sackings ‘absolutely outrageous’, union boss tells MPs

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said the ferry operator is guilty of ‘flagrant breaches of the law’.

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries - live: CEO says firm broke the law but would ‘make this decision again’

‘I would make this decision again, I’m afraid,’ says Peter Hebblethwaite of mass sackings

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The Guardian - UK

Exploiters such as P&O watch out – there’s a new wave of trade unionists coming for you

Trade unions are shackled by restrictive laws, but they can still challenge militant capitalism, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Cost of living crisis hitting economic outlook as firms hike prices – as it happened

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Wales Online

P&O chief executive to be quizzed by MPs over crew dismissals

Peter Hebblethwaite will appear before a joint hearing of transport and business committees

The Independent UK

P&O chief executive to be quizzed by MPs over sackings

Peter Hebblethwaite will appear before a joint hearing of transport and business committees.

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Wales Online

easyJet pledges to fast-track P&O ferry staff for airline jobs - full list of vacancies

Besides cabin crew vacancies at the airline, other roles are available at easyJet’s London Luton Airport headquarters

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer accuses Boris Johnson of ‘half-arsed bluster and waffle’ on workers’ rights

PM ‘all mouth no trousers’ over P&O Ferries scandal, says Labour leader

Daily Record

P&O protestors call for boycott of services during demonstration at Cairnryan Port

Dozens of protestors are at Cairnryan Port as they call for the immediate reinstatement of P&O workers

Nottingham Post

P&O Ferries appear to have 'broken the law' Prime Minister says

800 workers were sacked by the company

Daily Record

P&O 'broke the law' says Boris Johnson as he promises action on mass sackings

The Prime Minister was accused of 'half-assed bluster' by Labour's Keir Starmer who claimed Johnson was too spineless to take action against the P&O parent company.

The Independent UK

Prime Minister says it appears P&O ‘broke the law’ over sackings

The company’s chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite issued an apology for the impact of sacking 800 workers.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson says P&O did break law and government ‘will take them to court’ despite Grayling exemption

Ferry company chiefs ‘aren’t going to get away with it’, says PM

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