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P&O Ferries faces backlash after firing 800 workers

“Your last day of employment is today” - sacked, in an instant and over Zoom - 800 seafaring crew at P&O Ferries.


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A backlash against P&O Ferries is growing after the firm sacked 800 staff without giving them any notice.


The government said it would review its contracts with P&O Ferries after it fired its employees, planning to replace them with cheaper agency staff.




Unions hit out against the dismissal, saying it marked a "dark day" in the shipping industry.

P&O said it was a "tough" decision but it would "not be a viable business" without the changes.

A chorus of cross-party MPs, however, described P&O Ferries' actions as "callous" and "disgraceful".

Nearly a quarter of P&O Ferries' staff were told via a video message on Thursday that it was their "final day of employment".

The RMT union said it was one of the "most shameful acts in the history of British industrial relations". There are protests planned on Friday across the ports of Dover, Liverpool, Hull and Larne.

P&O Ferries worker Andrew Smith said he felt "utter dismay" after working for the company for 22 years.

"It's our lives," he said. "It's how our families have grown up, knowing that this is what we do, and it's just been turned on its head within a matter of hours."


Sacked P&O employee Andrew Smith said he felt "utter dismay" at losing his job after 22 years


Mark Dickinson, general secretary of the maritime trade union Nautilus, told the BBC: "It's absolutely ripped the guts out of everybody."

Having worked in the sector for 40 years, he added: "It is a dark day in the shipping industry.

"I've seen some curveballs and some shocking developments over that time... but for a company to treat the legal process in such an underhand and callous way has shocked me."

In addition to taking part in demonstrations on Friday, both the RMT union and Nautilus are seeking legal advice on the dismissal.

Beth Hale, partner at employment law firm CM Murray, said P&O Ferries may well have breached employment law.

She told the BBC's Today programme that it should have consulted with unions and staff about potential dismissals and notified the government that hundreds of jobs were at risk.

"It's potentially an enormous breach, but they purport to be paying their way out of it," she added.

Sacked staff said the video message had referred to a "generous severance package" being offered, but no details were given.
'Assault on workers' rights'

Maritime minister Robert Courts said he was "frankly angry at the way workers have been treated". He told the House of Commons P&O Ferries' actions were "wholly unacceptable".

"Reports of workers being given zero notice and escorted off their ships with immediate effect while being told cheaper alternatives would take up their roles, shows the insensitive nature by which P&O approached this issue," he said.

He added that he did not expect critical goods and services to be hit by the sudden drop in capacity, but travellers "should expect some disruption over the coming days".

The Department for Business has said it is "looking at the situation", but the company has said services are unable to run over the next few days.





Former P&O workers collect their belongings after being fired





In a letter to the prime minister, Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh described the firing as a "despicable assault on workers' rights".

"But British seafarers do not need meaningless platitudes - they need action," she added, demanding that government suspends any contracts it holds with DP World - P&O Ferries' owner.

Former transport minister Sir John Hayes also criticised the "capricious, careless, callous" decision, and suggested the government should "recover any monies granted to P&O during the pandemic" in a bid to reverse it.

P&O Ferries claimed almost £15m in government grants in 2020, which included furlough payments for its employees.



Sir John added: "Don't let anyone tell me this is the free market. The free market put little girls in factories and boys down mines, and both at risk on the high seas; we thought those dark days had gone - P&O are either too dim to see that or too dastardly to know it."

P&O Ferries said on Thursday that the decision to lay-off 800 workers was "tough" but said the business would not be viable without "making swift and significant changes now".

It said: "We have made a £100m loss year-on-year, which has been covered by our parent DP World. This is not sustainable. Without these changes there is no future for P&O Ferries."





Protest against P&O sackings



More protests are planned for Friday


P&O Ferries is one of the UK's leading ferry companies, carrying more than 10 million passengers a year before the pandemic and about 15% of all freight cargo in and out of the UK.

P&O was bought by DP World, the multi-national ports and logistics company based in Dubai in 2019. At the time of purchase, its chairman Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem described it as a "strong, recognisable brand".

It paid a £270m dividend to shareholders in 2020.


However, like many transport operators, it saw demand slump in the pandemic.

Just a couple of months after the dividends announcement, it said it would cut 1,100 jobs after a downturn in bookings.


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UK Home Office Cancels Border Force Contract With P&O Ferries After MASS Sackings

Agreement to provide contingency travel services terminated over layoffs of nearly 800 seafarers


The Guardian UK 31 MAY 2022



Ministers have cancelled a contract with P&O Ferries after it sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice in March.



The Home Office announced that the agreement with the Border Force agency would come to an end with “immediate effect”.

It follows the Department for Transport winding up a deal with P&O Ferries after a review in light of the mass sackings.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “In response to P&O Ferries’ unacceptable behaviour, Border Force has terminated its agreement with P&O to provide contingency travel services to juxtaposed ports with immediate effect.”

Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, tweeted: “We’ve terminated UK Border Force’s one-of-a-kind agreement with the company.

“We’re reforming maritime law to stop firms exploiting legal loopholes and protect workers’ rights.”


The ferry firm was widely condemned after it sacked 786 staff without any notice on 17 March, replacing them with cheaper agency workers. Politicians and trade unions said the decision put the safety of ships at risk.

P&O Ferries ships were detained by the Maritime and Coastguards Agency (MCA) over safety fears, including liners that normally run between Dover and Calais, and from Larne to Cairnryan.



Part of the reason was down to a lack of crew training and familiarisation. On the European Causeway ship at Larne, inspectors found 31 separate failings, including problems with fire safety and lifeboat drills.

A week after the sackings, the company’s chief executive, Peter Hebblethwaite, admitted at a parliamentary select committee that it knowingly broke employment law by not consulting unions before dismissing the workers.

The firm suspended cross-Channel services in the aftermath of the sackings, including over Easter. Shapps had told MPs that Hebblethwaite would “have to go” but the government has yet to carry out the financial penalties it had initially threatened.


The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has written to the Insolvency Service, which is carrying out criminal and civil investigations into the company, saying that its directors should be disqualified.



However, Hebblethwaite told an industry conference in May: “We have not conducted ourselves on the day, or since, in anything like the way that has been suggested of me and us.”

The government announced measures in this month’s Queen’s speech to ensure seafarers are paid at least the UK’s national minimum wage. It said it will bring in laws to ban ferries from docking at UK ports if they pay workers below that level.
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