P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries owner records huge profits despite previously claiming business was unviable.

The boss of P&O Ferries has denied that his company has taken a reputational hit in the wake of its sudden sacking of 800 crew in mid-March.

What does the P&O Ferries saga tell us about the rights of workers on and offshore in the UK?

Transport secretary Grant Shapps calls on P&O Ferries chief executive to resign but first to return furlough cash.

P&O Ferries has been forced to reinstate agency workers' original contracts after it allegedly attempted to push through a pay cut by asking workers to sign new ones.

Union leaders have called on ministers to assume control of P&O Ferries’ passenger and freight services in the light of multiple safety failures.

P&O Ferries owner DP World has withdrawn from the leadership team of a freeport project because of political pressure stemming from the P&O Ferries redundancies.

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.

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

Legislation that will force all ferry companies operating from UK ports to pay the national minimum wage will be introduced in the House of Commons this week.