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P&O Ferries reveals plans to resume sailings

The company sparked outrage by replacing its crews with cheaper agency workers, without notice

Birmingham Post

Larne P&O ferry to resume sailing next week after being detained

The company sacked almost 800 seafarers and replaced them with agency staff on cheaper salaries.

Belfast Live

Ex-P&O Ferries chef suing for £76million over 'sham redundancy' claims

Tribunals have never previously made a punitive award of damages on such a scale

Nottingham Post

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P&O Ferries announces plans to resume sailings

The firm sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice on March 17.

The Independent UK

Majority of P&O services still suspended three weeks on from mass sacking of 800 staff

Of P&O’s eight ferries that were affected by the axing of crew, and replacement by agency workers, just one has been cleared to sail, three weeks on from its decision to fire 800 staff

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries sets out plan for resumption – with free trips for disrupted travellers

Controversial company hopes to bring two ships back on Dover-Calais next week

The Independent UK

Ex-P&O Ferries chef suing for £76million over claims he was victim of 'sham redundancy'

John Lansdown, who joined P&O as a 16-year-old trainee, was working as a sous chef on The Pride of Canterbury when he was sacked "out of the blue" after the transport giant announced 800 job cuts

Daily Mirror

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P&O Ferries passengers told that DFDS can’t take them from Dover to France at the weekend

‘Please do not proceed to port without a confirmed reservation, contact P&O Ferries for alternative travel arrangements,’ says rival ferry firm

The Independent UK

Airport chaos – live: Easter breaks disrupted as more than 100 British Airways and easyJet flights cancelled

Airlines struggle to cope with surge in demand

The Independent UK

P&O employee suing company for unfair dismissal, discrimination and harassment

"This is not just about me. Seven hundred and ninety nine of my seafaring family have lost their livelihoods"

Wales Online

Former P&O employee sues company for unfair dismissal and discrimination

It comes after criminal and civil investigations were launched into the firm’s decision to sack nearly 800 workers.

The Independent UK

Travel disruption as Stena Line moves ships to fill P&O Ferries gaps

Company cancels sailings between Fishguard in south Wales and Rosslare in Ireland until 12 April

The Guardian - UK

Caught up in the chaos at Dover, the kids and I made the best of it. Then the jaffa cakes ran out …

How did we start our Easter holidays? In a queue so bad that it made the news. Thank you, Brexit and P&O Ferries

The Guardian - UK

Eurotunnel train breakdown causes further travel chaos

Easter holidaymakers and lorry drivers travelling to mainland Europe hit by more delays

The Guardian - UK

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Delaying new law ‘gives green light to rogue employers’, says TUC

With employment bill unlikely to make Queen’s speech, P&O Ferries-type scandals will happen again, says Frances O’Grady

Manchester Evening News

Ant and Dec squirm over Alan Partridge's 'savage' P&O Ferries dig on ITV Saturday Night Takeaway

Steve Coogan's comedy character said he was warned not to 'break ITV guidelines'

The Guardian - UK

Doug Bannister, head of the Port of Dover: ‘We’re at the centre of Brexit. I signed up for that’

The US executive took over the port in 2019, in the heat of the debate about the EU. He’s not surprised it’s been a challenge

Wales Online

Dover ferry passengers face huge delays with miles of queuing motorway traffic and roads at a standstill

Roads around the port of Dover are gridlocked and there are miles of queuing lorries on motorways.

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Manchester Evening News

The foreign destinations Mancs are most looking forward to going to now travel restrictions have ended

Many are looking forward to their first foreign holiday in two years, but for some it'll be too expensive to go away

The Independent UK

What sanctions could P&O Ferries face for sacking 800 workers without notice?

Criminal and civil investigations have been launched by the Insolvency Service into P&O’s decision to make the seafarers redundant.

The Independent UK

Criminal and civil probes launched into P&O Ferries sackings

P&O Ferries sacked nearly 800 seafarers and replaced them with cheaper agency workers on March 17.

Wales Online

Criminal and civil investigations launched into P&O Ferries over sacking of 800 workers

The Insolvency Service launched the investigations earlier today

Evening Standard

Criminal inquiry into P&O Ferries launched

P&O Ferries sacked nearly 800 staff and replaced them with cheaper agency workers on March 17

Daily Mirror

Criminal investigation launched into P&O Ferries for sacking 800 workers

The Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into P&O Ferries after the mass sacking of workers shocked the nation - and the firm's boss said he'd do the same again

Birmingham Post

P&O Ferries: Criminal inquiry launched into decision to sack 800 workers without warning

The company has been under fire since the news broke on March 17

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