P&O Ferries - Disgraceful?

[slogen51]

P&O Ferries parent company is DP World - a Dubai based holding company.

Disgraceful treatment of the British staff

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60789612

Black P&O !!

[Pune]

P&O Ferries parent company is DP World - a Dubai based holding company.

Disgraceful treatment of the British staff

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60789612

Black P&O !!

I agree, P&O should be blacklisted by everyone.

[slogen51]

Trouble is that will damage the rest of the staff!

[Pune]

Trouble is that will damage the rest of the staff!

That is true, but it seems that even though P&O have broken quite a few employment laws, the Government is not in a position to help for some strange reason??
Sadly a lot of other companies will look at this situation and think they too can get away with such appalling treatment of staff.

[bizfreeq]

The government are currently looking into it to ascertain whether any laws have been broken and If they have, what ramifications they can impose

[Rob666]

They have broken plenty of laws, you have to give sufficient notice of such a move and just can't dump this awful news on people. Not sure of the guys name on the video and frankly don't care but you should be ashamed of yourself in not even having the guts to do this face to face. Treat people how you expect to be treated clearly you don't know this when in your ivory tower.

[slogen51]

These **** who own investment holdings treat workers as resources not people - cut your feck dividend and improve your services and make them more attractive to customers.

Then everyone is a winner

[TARGET]

We all have the opportunity to show our disgust by boycotting them and placing business with other suppliers

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They have broken plenty of laws, you have to give sufficient notice of such a move and just can't dump this awful news on people. Not sure of the guys name on the video and frankly don't care but you should be ashamed of yourself in not even having the guts to do this face to face. Treat people how you expect to be treated clearly you don't know this when in your ivory tower.

I don't know myself whether any laws were broken but I suspect there's little the government could have done to have stopped those 800 being made instantly redundant if that's what P&O wanted to do. They'd have found a way, for example, the board could have voted to begin voluntary liquidation in which case all several thousand employees would've been dismissed instantly. Or, they could file for administration and gone down the prepack administration route to get the staff they wanted back. Additionally, we don't know what redundancy packages were offered to them, I just know they have until the end of March to accept them. I suspect the staff will be paid in lieu of notice and the government will tell P&O off but accept that things could've been much worse for many more employees.

[slogen51]

We all have the opportunity to show our disgust by boycotting them and placing business with other suppliers

Agreed but that hits workers as well as shareholders

[slogen51]

They have broken plenty of laws, you have to give sufficient notice of such a move and just can't dump this awful news on people. Not sure of the guys name on the video and frankly don't care but you should be ashamed of yourself in not even having the guts to do this face to face. Treat people how you expect to be treated clearly you don't know this when in your ivory tower.

I don't know myself whether any laws were broken but I suspect there's little the government could have done to have stopped those 800 being made instantly redundant if that's what P&O wanted to do. They'd have found a way, for example, the board could have voted to begin voluntary liquidation in which case all several thousand employees would've been dismissed instantly. Or, they could file for administration and gone down the prepack administration route to get the staff they wanted back. Additionally, we don't know what redundancy packages were offered to them, I just know they have until the end of March to accept them. I suspect the staff will be paid in lieu of notice and the government will tell P&O off but accept that things could've been much worse for many more employees.

In my not so humble opinion the board want to sack staff at a moments notice and recruit lower paid people or outsource

Not illegal but if you don't mind being one of the dismissed or indeed one of their replacements and look them in the eye as you board the ferry to take their place.

In my opinion DPworld are scum

[XWP29]

Paper reporting that the replacement crews are paid as little as £2 ph and that they don’t have clearance to sail.
Thinking wider that if this sticks it’ll force other ferry companies to react.

[Hurn]

P&O Chief Executive, deservedly getting roasted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00_1-0TlPdg

[cat1]

now any trust built up has been destroyed as quickly as ice in the Sahara