P&O Ferries: Not consulting on job cuts broke law, boss admits [View all]

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P&O Ferries: Not consulting on job cuts broke law, boss admits

By Tom Espiner & Daniel Thomas
Business reporter, BBC News

25 March 2022

P&O Ferries boss Peter Hebblethwaite has admitted to MPs that a decision to sack 800 workers last week without notice broke the law.

He said there was "absolutely no doubt" that under UK employment law the firm was required to consult unions before making the mass cuts.

However, he said no union would have accepted the plan and it was easier to compensate workers "in full" instead.

The P&O boss also said he would make the same decision again if he had to.

Huw Merriman, the Conservative chair of the Transport Committee urged him to resign.

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