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The P&O Ferries 'fire and re-hire' scandal, what we know now, and could it happen again?

It's a week since P&O Ferries staff were escorted off vessels by balaclava wearing security guards starting a 'fire and rehire' scandal in the UK

Chronicle Live

P&O Ferries boss reveals new crew paid just £5.50 an hour as he admits law was broken

The firm replaced 800 seafarers with cheaper agency staff last week

Manchester Evening News

P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law as he apologies - but says he would make same decision to sack 800 staff again

Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite claimed the sacking of 800 people was necessary or P&O would have been unable to continue operating

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P&O admits breaking the law over sackings

Chief executive is due to be grilled by MSPs next week, after a first round today in Westminster

Insider UK

P&O Ferries admits breaking law over mass sackings

The workers were dismissed without notice

Wales Online

P&O admits breaking law over sackings

The company replaced its crews with cheaper agency workers last week.

The Independent UK

New P&O ferry workers will be paid under UK minimum wage, admits boss who has £325,000 basic salary

800 workers were sacked by P&O Ferries without notice last week

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P&O boss admits new staff paid just £5.50 an hour as he’s grilled by MPs over ferry safety

Peter Hebblethwaite also acknowledged the decision to sack the workers last week without consulting the unions broke the law

Evening Standard

P&O Ferries admits paying new workers below UK minimum wage

The company's chief executive has given evidence to MPs

Birmingham Post

P&O boss admits company broke law as MPs demand immediate action

MPs investigating the sacking of 800 staff by P&O Ferries were left stunned by an admission by the company boss that they ignored the 'sham' of redundancy consultations demanded by law.

Daily Record

‘No powers’ to prosecute P&O despite firm admitting it broke law in sacking 800 workers, government concedes

It is up to ‘the individuals concerned’ to take the firm to a tribunal, minister tells MPs

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law by sacking staff without consultation

CEO tells MPs P&O aims to halve costs under ‘new model’ using seafarers paid just £5.15 an hour

The Guardian - UK

‘Are you just a shameless criminal?’: savage start to P&O Ferries questioning by Labour MP

Darren Jones shows no mercy following mass redunandancies

The Independent UK

P&O Ferries intentionally broke law over mass sackings, CEO Peter Hebblethwaite admits

‘We chose not to consult and we are - and will - compensate everybody in full for that,’ ferry company boss says

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The Independent UK

P&O admits paying new ferry workers below UK minimum wage

Chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite said the average pay of the new crew is only £5.15 per hour.

Daily Mirror

P&O Ferries boss admits firm broke law - and claims they warned Tories last YEAR

Chief Executive Peter Hebbelthwaite claimed the firm warned Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last year that P&O would be "needing to make changes to our business this year”

Daily Record

Furious protest at Scottish port over P&O's "illegal" sacking of staff

Sacked workers among protestors at ferry operator's Scottish base. They were replaced by £2 an hour foreign workers, leading to legal action against P&O by unions and UK government

The Independent UK

P&O sackings ‘absolutely outrageous’, union boss tells MPs

Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said the ferry operator is guilty of ‘flagrant breaches of the law’.

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The Independent UK

P&O Ferries - live: CEO says firm broke the law but would ‘make this decision again’

‘I would make this decision again, I’m afraid,’ says Peter Hebblethwaite of mass sackings

The Guardian - UK

Exploiters such as P&O watch out – there’s a new wave of trade unionists coming for you

Trade unions are shackled by restrictive laws, but they can still challenge militant capitalism, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Cost of living crisis hitting economic outlook as firms hike prices – as it happened

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Wales Online

P&O chief executive to be quizzed by MPs over crew dismissals

Peter Hebblethwaite will appear before a joint hearing of transport and business committees

The Independent UK

P&O chief executive to be quizzed by MPs over sackings

Peter Hebblethwaite will appear before a joint hearing of transport and business committees.

Wales Online

easyJet pledges to fast-track P&O ferry staff for airline jobs - full list of vacancies

Besides cabin crew vacancies at the airline, other roles are available at easyJet’s London Luton Airport headquarters

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer accuses Boris Johnson of ‘half-arsed bluster and waffle’ on workers’ rights

PM ‘all mouth no trousers’ over P&O Ferries scandal, says Labour leader

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