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P&O Ferries: sacked seafarers march on Parliament to demand action

‘Safety is paramount in our new crewing management model,’ says P&O Ferries spokesperson

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

P&O must change course or reputation will take ‘massive hit’, minister warns

Stormont economy minister Gordon Lyons updated the Assembly following the sacking of 800 staff by the ferry company.

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

‘Grotesquely exploitative’ P&O Ferries previously paid foreign workers as little as £1.82 an hour

MP Karl Turner made the unsettling claims about P&O Ferries, adding that migrant staff worked 12-hour shifts and had to stay in tents and hotels

Wales Online · Mar 21, 2022

P&O ferries between Larne and Cairnryan 'remain suspended'

The ferry operator has insisted the decision to cut jobs was “very difficult but necessary

Belfast Live · Mar 21, 2022

Safety fears as P&O Liverpool ferry resumes with agency staff

RMT union raise major concerns as it is claimed workers have been replaced with staff who have never been on vessel before

Liverpool Echo · Mar 21, 2022

Ministers give P&O bosses deadline to explain mass sackings

A Labour MP has branded the ferry operator's practices "grotesquely exploitative"

Liverpool Echo · Mar 21, 2022

Staff replacing sacked P&O Ferries workers face ‘poverty pay’

UK Government ministers were privy to memo about sackings before they were announced

Insider UK · Mar 21, 2022

P&O Ferries ‘unsafe’ with new crew on board, claims union

‘We will not be reducing crewing numbers. We don’t have a business if we don’t have a safe business’ – spokesperson for the ferry firm

The Independent UK · Mar 21, 2022

Controversial P&O Ferries previously hired 'agency workers on £1.82 an hour'

MP Karl Turner, who has been dealing with P&O Ferries for years in his Hull East constituency, said that migrant workers were expected to work 12-hour shifts for eight weeks at a time

Daily Mirror · Mar 21, 2022

P&O bosses issued with deadline to come up with answers over shock sackings

Unions say the P&O Ferries scandal, in which it sacked 800 crew on the spot, replacing them with cheaper agency workers, had shone a light on a “race to the bottom”.

Daily Record · Mar 21, 2022