Travel disruption as Stena Line moves ships to fill P&O Ferries gaps Company cancels sailings between Fishguard in south Wales and Rosslare in Ireland until 12 April The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022
Caught up in the chaos at Dover, the kids and I made the best of it. Then the jaffa cakes ran out … How did we start our Easter holidays? In a queue so bad that it made the news. Thank you, Brexit and P&O Ferries The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2022
Eurotunnel train breakdown causes further travel chaos Easter holidaymakers and lorry drivers travelling to mainland Europe hit by more delays The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2022
Delaying new law ‘gives green light to rogue employers’, says TUC With employment bill unlikely to make Queen’s speech, P&O Ferries-type scandals will happen again, says Frances O’Grady The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022
Ant and Dec squirm over Alan Partridge's 'savage' P&O Ferries dig on ITV Saturday Night Takeaway Steve Coogan's comedy character said he was warned not to 'break ITV guidelines' Manchester Evening News · Apr 2, 2022
Doug Bannister, head of the Port of Dover: ‘We’re at the centre of Brexit. I signed up for that’ The US executive took over the port in 2019, in the heat of the debate about the EU. He’s not surprised it’s been a challenge The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022
Dover ferry passengers face huge delays with miles of queuing motorway traffic and roads at a standstill Roads around the port of Dover are gridlocked and there are miles of queuing lorries on motorways. Wales Online · Apr 2, 2022
The foreign destinations Mancs are most looking forward to going to now travel restrictions have ended Many are looking forward to their first foreign holiday in two years, but for some it'll be too expensive to go away Manchester Evening News · Apr 2, 2022
What sanctions could P&O Ferries face for sacking 800 workers without notice? Criminal and civil investigations have been launched by the Insolvency Service into P&O’s decision to make the seafarers redundant. The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2022
Criminal and civil probes launched into P&O Ferries sackings P&O Ferries sacked nearly 800 seafarers and replaced them with cheaper agency workers on March 17. The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2022
Criminal and civil investigations launched into P&O Ferries over sacking of 800 workers The Insolvency Service launched the investigations earlier today Wales Online · Apr 1, 2022
Criminal inquiry into P&O Ferries launched P&O Ferries sacked nearly 800 staff and replaced them with cheaper agency workers on March 17 Evening Standard · Apr 1, 2022
Criminal investigation launched into P&O Ferries for sacking 800 workers The Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into P&O Ferries after the mass sacking of workers shocked the nation - and the firm's boss said he'd do the same again Daily Mirror · Apr 1, 2022
P&O Ferries: Criminal inquiry launched into decision to sack 800 workers without warning The company has been under fire since the news broke on March 17 Birmingham Post · Apr 1, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022 P&O Ferries: criminal investigation launched after staff sackings Insolvency Service starts ‘both criminal and civil investigations’ over firm’s dismissal of 786 workers
Daily Record · Apr 1, 2022 P&O Ferries faces criminal investigation into mass sacking of workers The firm has been widely condemned for firing nearly 800 staff and replacing them with agency workers
The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2022 P&O Ferries has ‘got away with it’, say unions as Shapps backtracks on action Two-week battle to hold company to account for sacking of 786 crew members appears to end with a whimper
Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2022 P&O Cruises takes out adverts to make clear it is not related to disgraced P&O Ferries P&O Cruises has taken out adverts to make clear it is not linked to disgraced P&O Ferries.
Glasgow Live · Mar 31, 2022 Glasgow firm accused of helping P&O 'fire and rehire' staff and supplying 'scab workforce' Clyde Marine Recruitment has been accused of 'desperately phoning round staff who had been disgracefully sacked' after it was confirmed some of the P&O workers who were brutally axed will return on an agency basis.
Daily Record · Mar 31, 2022 'Shameful' P&O Ferries in fire and rehire row as Glasgow firm defends role Clyde Marine Recruitment (CMR) confirmed some of the P&O workers who were brutally axed will return on an agency basis.
Daily Record · Mar 30, 2022 Grant Shapps unveils plans to make P&O Ferries 'fundamentally rethink' sackings These include plans to create "minimum wage corridors" on ferry routes between the UK and other countries.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2022 Grant Shapps’ response to P&O Ferries won’t get its sacked workers their jobs back New powers will block ferries that pay crews below minimum wage from UK ports, which P&O will probably find acceptable
The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2022 P&O Ferries: What will pay raise for UK crew mean for future sailings? Most ferry firms have welcomed the measures
Daily Mirror · Mar 30, 2022 P&O Ferries: Ports to be handed powers to stop boats docking that don't pay crew minimum wage Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a warning to P&O Ferries, after the firm's no-notice sackings of 800 staff, that "the game is up" - but unions are unimpressed
Wales Online · Mar 30, 2022 P&O Ferries action by government 'far too little, too late' say unions Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced measures today