825:. Kathryn Evans of Trethowans, for example, suggested "staff could end up being paid 'hundreds of thousands of pounds in failure to consult and unfair dismissal awards'". On Friday Kwarteng also advised that he was looking into fining P&O—up to a potentially limitless amount—if the company's actions were found to be illegal. In a letter to P&O, he argued that "it cannot be right that the company feels tied closely enough to the UK to receive significant amounts of taxpayer money but does not appear willing to abide by the rules that we have put in place to protect British workers". He warned the company of "ramifications" should it be found to have broken the law.
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203:. P&O prepared in advance for physical force intervention and recruited "handcuff-trained" security guards for the Dover terminal two days before the announcement. However, the company denied that the guards wore balaclavas and argued that "the teams escorting the seafarers off our vessels were totally professional in handling this difficult task with all appropriate sensitivity. Contrary to rumours, none of our people wore balaclavas nor were they directed to use handcuffs nor force."
773:, as they were sacking employees, replacing them with agency staff and apparently encouraging the sacked staff to join those agencies. A government spokesperson said it would be "dismayed" if P&O were using fire and rehire practices, although the paper wrote that the government had not banned the practice when it had had the opportunity. The government received legal advice on P&O's actions, although it was not immediately released publicly.
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192:, a phone call or email was used. A spokesman said that "we know that for our staff this redundancy came without warning or prior consultation, and we fully understand that this has caused distress for them and their families". A letter from the company to the redundant staff suggested that if any of the latter "were affected by then please do take some time to absorb it".
660:, had been restored by the afternoon of 19 March, although with what crew was unknown. The company stated that it was losing ÂŁ1 million each day its ships were docked. The Labour Party called upon the government to block the route pending resolution of the dispute, and the government confirmed it was reviewing its contracts with the company; Shapps instructed the
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certainly have a claim of unfair dismissal, and queried why the company appeared to have "wholly ignored" relevant aspects of the law, suggesting that the company appeared to be "effectively seeking to avoid having to renegotiate terms with staff and their representatives". Beth Hale, of CM Murray suggested that the company's directors could themselves be
646:" on assurances the company had previously made to her. She said, following previous restructurings, the current arrangement she had brokered with the RMT had been intended to ensure the long-term survival of the Dover workforce. Protestors claiming that Conservative anti-trades union legislation permitted behaviour such as that exhibited by P&O.
68:—called for a boycott of the company and organised protests around the ports, but also outside parliament. P&O explained that for some time their business model had been impractical, resulting in losses of £100 million per annum, and that they needed to drastically reduce the wage bill to become profitable. Conversely, critics argued that the
596:, Gary Jackson told the BBC that the crew were "devastated". He praised the ship's captain for raising the gangway as he had, which he suggested was for the crew's safety: he suggested that the hired security would have pulled them off if they could have. Other workers, not employed by P&O, were also trapped on board; one complained of
788:, said that while there was precedent, "it is exceptional to forego appropriate notice and consultation processes". The company suggested that they had declined to consult before the dismissals on the grounds that that would have created the same level of disruption to both the company and UK trade generally.
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joined the protest, although it was reported that she was "barracked" by some protestors on the grounds that she had voted for fire and rehire in parliament the previous year. However, Elphicke blamed bad business practices rather than government policy before leaving, and condemned the job losses as
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and Egypt, and by 1922, Australia. P&O began operating ferry services in the 1960s. In 2002, the company amalgamated their various ferry lines into one company, P&O Ferries. By 2020, P&O Ferries had become a leading UK ferry operator with business worth around ÂŁ10 million per annum, with
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We expect companies to treat their employees fairly. It is only in extreme circumstances that employers need to make extreme decisions to secure the future of their businesses if all other avenues have failed, including negotiations between employer and employees. We don’t believe this was the case
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the same day that their employment was "terminated with immediate effect due to redundancy". Other reports suggested that staff were given a short period of time to disembark. P&O stated that only a minority—261—of the affected workers had received their notice in this fashion. The majority had
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On 24 March Shapps wrote to
Hebblethwaite to give him "one final opportunity" to reinstate the 800 workers. On 29 March Hebblethwaite said he would not resign, despite two of the company’s vessels being impounded over safety concerns and said that the company would not reinstate the 800 workers it
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It would be easy to criticise P&O, and even more its parent company Dubai World, for that decision. In fairness, it has handled the process with spectacular crassness. And yet the militants of the RMT Union are just as much to blame as the bosses. He suggested that P&O's move was "probably
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British government criticised the company's actions and stated that it was looking at the legal ramifications, including whether P&O could be fined, and how other contracts it held with DP World were affected. The legal community was generally critical of P&O for seemingly ignoring UK
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In 2020, P&O employed around 1700 seafarers. P&O had previously closed routes—for example, two between Hull to
Zeebrugge—and put them up for sale in February 2021. The company said the routes were loss-making, and the government stated that this was a commercial matter. Also reduced as a
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was instructed by RMT to act on behalf of the sacked workers. Neil Todd, speaking from
Thompson's, confirmed their belief that employment law regarding consultation and notification did not appear to have been carried out, and also dismissed P&O's claim that it was the fault of COVID-19 as
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RMT complained that, while they requested talks with the company, they had heard nothing from P&O, even though the union believed that the cuts must have taken a long time planning. RMT also argued that, if the company was in financial trouble, this was due to it having "been financially
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Donaldson noted that, while the government had reviewed the law surrounding the practice the previous year, its report had emphasised it was expected to be used as a measure of last, rather than a first, resort. Rustom Tata also believed that staff either sacked, or about to be, would almost
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was partly to blame, as it had been intimated that the country would no longer be bound by
European employment practices. In Dover protestors gathered outside the RMT's regional office and then marched on the terminal, blocking roads when it was suspected that approaching buses contained
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The company acknowledged the "distress" it said its employees had experienced, but said it had had to make a "tough" decision, in order to enact "swift and significant changes" which were a necessity if it was to maintain business viability. A statement said that they had made a loss of
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services. Many passengers, though, were stranded; many complained at the lack of information from the company. Stena reported that as P&O had not approached them with an agreement, tickets could not be honoured and those wishing to travel on Stena would have to be new passengers.
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called the decision "cowardly", while Scully argued that legislation was an inappropriate method of dealing with it. He said, "the unambiguous message is that bully-boy tactics of fire-and-rehire, for use as a negotiating tactic, is absolutely inappropriate" in the view of his
271:, and that "This is not sustainable. Without these changes there is no future for P&O Ferries", and that "the business wouldn't survive without fundamentally changed crewing arrangements". The changes were intended to reduce crewing costs by 50%, the CEO subsequently said.
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said it was one of the "most shameful acts in the history of
British industrial relations". The union asked that the government use influence to pressure a reversal of the decision, while there were broader calls for DP World to be excluded from bidding for any future
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if a case came within its purview. In the event that the P&O redundancy tribunals remained a simple affair of breaches of the UK's own employment law, then the cases were unlikely to even get to the
Supreme Court, making an appeal to the Court of Justice moot.
796:. Tata also noted though that the sit-ins and staff occupation of the company's vessels could have a negative impact on a tribunal claim, as P&O could counterclaim for losses incurred and thus reduce the amount of compensation individual employees received.
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spokesman reported that, while the DfT's senior officials had been informed, they had restricted propagation on commercial sensitivity grounds, and this had included the Prime
Minister. He also did not think it had come up for discussion when the PM visited the
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At 11am ratings and officers were informed there was going to be a pre-recorded Zoom meeting. After that two to three-minute call, all the crew were made redundant. I've seen grown men crying on there because they don't know where they're going to go from today
509:. Turner argued that the government should reclaim the furlough money it had paid previously, while Haigh suggested P&O have its licence to operate withdrawn and remove the company from the transport advisory group. Turner, along with fellow Hull MPs
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881:", and that the spirit of the requirement to consult went back far longer in English law than its European counterpart. Siddique concludes that the main area where Brexit might make a difference is legally. Previously, if a case had gone to the
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would improve as a direct result. Siddique also wrote that
Britain was in any case unable to lower rights to below those that existed on 30 December 2020, and that, indeed, there had been no attempt by the government to do so. Interviewed,
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shows the insensitive way in which P&O have approached this issue", and that he was "extremely concerned and frankly angry at the way workers have been treated by P&O". It was, however, unlikely that the government would support
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being successful on a number of grounds. For its part, P&O argued that to have followed the suggested consultation and other processes would have caused even more trauma to both their own staff and the broader UK tourist industry.
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only to turn around. He told reporters, "I felt I can't do it. I felt sick to my stomach. And I walked off. Two others came with me. It's just wrong." P&O's actions attracted cross-party criticism. In Dover, local MP
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A number of factors were probably at play, including rising fuel costs and the disruption of travel, with its increased paperwork, following Brexit, and Covid. For its part, DP World said it had never received a
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or text message, terminating their employment "with immediate effect". Also of concern was the fact that the crews were intended to be replaced with cheaper agency labour. The two main trades unions involved—the
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commented that he felt, "frankly, a revulsion at the kind of sharp practices from P&O. There has been a complete lack of engagement, a lack of prior notice or indeed any empathy whatsoever for the workers."
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by the captain. The crew members eventually left the ship approximately five hours later in response to P&O agreeing to provide RMT with the documentation the union required. DP World's London offices were
832:, P&O may have "recognised the unlawfulness of its actions", as it appeared to be willing to issue "enhanced" redundancy packages. The following Monday, it emerged that these packages required signing a
55:. The decision was met with much criticism from both sides of the political divide, particularly as a result of the speed and immediacy of the crews' termination notices, which in some cases consisted of a
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the previous
Wednesday. Shapps later said that, while he had been made aware of the plan on Wednesday evening, he had assumed it would involve the same in-depth consultation as the previous layoffs.
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argued that, superficially, the first major swathe of job losses since Brexit was its "first big test of workers' rights". Haroon Siddique, the legal affairs correspondent, noted that when he was
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attended, as did the leader of the Labour council, Darren Hale, who talked about the damage the job losses would do to the city as well as the wider precarity within the industry. He argued that
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DP World is lined up to be a major operator at the Solent and Thames freeports, "putting DP World firmly in the slipstream of post-Brexit government economic policy", argues Gwyn Topham of
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around Europe and the busy Summer period was approaching. Another member of staff queried why the company had been "ordering new uniforms and giving us all a pay rise" a few days earlier.
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French news reported that, while P&O maintained a staff of around 250 persons in Calais, no French staff had been dismissed, although it was agreed that the news would "shake up" the
485:, said "ill-treating workers is not just business. In God’s eyes, it is sin." They also suggested that P&O's timing was intended to take advantage of the distraction provided by the
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reported that Dover was in "chaos" on Thursday night, with roads gridlocked by cars and lorries attempting to leave and enter the port. Passengers at Dover were advised to use
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routes. The firm intended to use the International Ferry Management agency, and this was revealed in a letter from chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite, which was leaked to the
346:, had had prior warning of the company's intentions. However, by Friday it was reported that, in fact, the government had learned of P&O's plans on Wednesday night. A
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reported that employment lawyers had reacted "with surprise" to the news, with some suggesting that the company may have broken several laws and leaving them liable to
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expressed concerns as to the legality of the company's actions, and told the government to "ensure that this appalling employment transaction cannot be completed". The
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released a statement supporting the P&O workers and offering employment for whoever could take it. The company, known as CalMac, had 16 deck ratings and one
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464:, bluntly stated that the company had "got it very wrong" and described their management practices as being from "another era" Conservative Party co-chair,
633:. Protesters shouted "seize the ships" as they marched. Kent police were in attendance. In Liverpool, protests took place outside the Conservative Party's
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A number of the agency workers—among them former P&O staff—hired to replace the crews in Hull walked off the job. One, Mark Canet-Baldwin, arrived at
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to carry out official inspections of all P&O ships docked in British waters, particularly with regard to the training and diligence of the crews.
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Kwarteng addressed his letter to Robert Woods, chairman of P&O, although in the event it transpired that Woods had resigned in December 2021;
528:, also backed the recouping of P&O's furlough money, although Channel 4 understood this to be not a likely proposition. RMT general secretary
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of their vessel, preventing security guards and police from boarding, although later left the ship of their own accord. The ship's full time
765:. This is an employment practice whereby a company dismisses staff but encourages them to reapply for their old jobs under less favourable
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with staff before the process begins. The legality of P&O's actions has been questioned in a number of quarters. Nathan Donaldson, an
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would suffer as a result of the public perceiving their premeditated plan as an over the top reaction. Likewise, Ann Francke, head of the
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after Brexit. The BBC also said that while P&O disputed this figure, it was unable to discuss wages paid by a third-party employer.
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suggested that the affair was likely to focus attention on the practice of hiring/refiring, and particularly on attempts to outlaw it.
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stated that, while redundancy law operated under UK statute, the necessity of a consultation period was an unaltered remnant of
811:) 45 days beforehand; a spokesman for the Prime Minister confirmed on Thursday afternoon that no such notice had been received.
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426:, Livia Spera, said it was "astonishing that this can happen in a major developed country like the UK". In Northern Ireland,
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report described as "unlikely bedfellows". A government statement described the mass dismissal as "wholly unacceptable". The
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mismanaged for years". The union called for a mass boycott of P&O; this was backed by Opposition MPs including
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payments during the COVID-inspired slump, although the company announced 1,100 job cuts soon after. It is owned by
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marched alongside the RMT's General Secretary and senior assistant general secretary, as well as the former
1921:"P&O Ferries 'give business a bad name' amid rising anger and protests over sackings – as it happened"
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said that the error was due to DP World's website being out of date. Woods joined the board of DP World.
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services until P&O were in a position to restore theirs; those for Dublin were pointed to
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their ships, although they were later removed. They were backed by both RMT and
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in the UK is ÂŁ8.91 an hour, but this does not apply to ships that sail through
1986:"P&O Ferries defends 'last resort' decision to sack 800 staff on the spot"
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2065:"'We have vacancies': CalMac in message of support to sacked P&O staff"
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1654:"P&O resumes Liverpool-Dublin service as government reviews contracts"
1202:"Government knew of P&O Ferries sackings the day before, No 10 admits"
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face to face meetings with their local management, although in some cases
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in 2003, also suffered public backlash and subsequently embarked on an
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2012:"P&O fury as 'ZERO French staff fired' despite all UK staff going"
1759:"Replacements for P&O Ferries crew paid ÂŁ1.80 an hour, unions say"
1508:"Angry protests against P&O Ferries take place at ports across UK"
1856:"Unions are as much to blame as P&O bosses for the ferries chaos"
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1894:"P&O job losses devastating blow for Dover, local MP says"
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Topham, Gwyn; Stewart, Heather; Sweney, Mark (18 March 2022).
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1955:"P&O workers block road to Port of Dover in jobs protest"
2213:"Anger as ministers block 'fire and rehire' bill in Commons"
1298:"P&O to axe Hull to Zeebrugge route due to Covid impact"
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100 million which had been covered by its umbrella company,
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P&O suspended ferry services while they located cheaper
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for P&O staff. We are looking into this very carefully.
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to clarify their separate ownership from P&O Ferries.
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outside the UK. Some of P&O's ships were flagged to
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Protesters gather outside the RMT Dover office, 18 March
1576:"DP World's controversial history of P&O ownership"
1033:"Who owns P&O and why has it sacked its UK staff?"
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Ruston Tata of DMH Stallard, suggested that P&O's
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Hayes, Andy; Enokido-Lineham, Olive (18 March 2022).
1613:"P&O Ferries defends brutal sacking of 800 staff"
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said the company "should be ashamed of themselves".
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