Where an employer is proposing to make redundant 20 or more employees at one establishment within 90 days, it is obliged to consult with appropriate representatives of the affected employees. This is known as “collective consultation”.
The duty to consult collectively on redundancies is in addition to the employer's obligations to consult individually with each of the potentially redundant employees.
A former P&O Ferries chef is taking the company to an employment tribunal, claiming unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment.
At the request of ministers the Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into the P&O Ferries redundancies.
The Nautilus Union: ‘P&O has gotten away with it. There’s no fine, there’s no legal action, there’s only words and hot air.’
The government's plan to ask UK ports to block ferries from docking if they do no pay crews the UK minimum wage would not succeed, the docks industry has stated.
Unite threatens Royal Mail with industrial action over what it claims is a ‘fire and rehire’ scheme to replace managers.
The government will publish a new statutory code on ‘fire and rehire’ tactics in a bid to clamp down on unscrupulous employers.
P&O Ferries has refused to rehire the 800 workers it has dismissed, stating it would cause the company’s collapse.
Some facets of the government's response to the 800 job losses were ill-informed, a legal expert tells Personnel Today
Despite P&O Ferries' admission of law-breaking over the mass redundancy of 800 staff, many uncertainties remain over the laws shipping staff are subject to, MPs have heard.
The UK transport secretary was ‘aware’ of problems at P&O Ferries by the time he met the head of DP World at Dubai Expo on 22 November last year.
P&O Ferries boss Hebblethwaite admits potentially criminal actions to MPs; transport secretary Grant Shapps at Dubai meeting when ‘major changes’ firm were discussed.
The TUC has said ministers must step in to run services if a ‘fit and proper’ operator could not be found quickly to replace P&O Ferries.
P&O Ferries has claimed it did not break the law by making 800 staff redundant without consultation or warning last week.
A group of Labour MPs has written to business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng urging him to launch legal action against P&O...
In the wake of the P&O Ferry sackings the TUC has demanded that ministers prevent workers from ‘being treated like disposable labour’.
