They aren't employed in the UK, P&O staff were legally employed in Jersey (and no idea where the agency will be operating from).
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They aren't employed in the UK, P&O staff were legally employed in Jersey (and no idea where the agency will be operating from).
It was just a question about something I'd seen reported but not looked into, calm your jets!
I wouldn't have been surprised if some of the crew made off with a ship and scuttled it.
For sure, bear in mind agencies have decent margins, so for it to be profitable on a agency must mean the actual salary (and benefits?) is a huge cut.
Those agencies are probably linked to P&O in some way or another, off-setting the costs and the tax liabilities. It's the tory way.
Young (ish), MP with a constituency in Kent on TV news last night was up in arms about the situation, saying that he found it hard to believe that it was legal, that would have to be researched, and if it was legal then Parliament needed to bring in an Act to make it illegal.
If I was one of P & O’s workers who’d been let go I’d have been cheered by his words.
Then today we hear that the workers contracts were negotiated under the laws of Jersey, and apparently the British Government have no say in Jersey law, so it would seem to be a fait accompli, and the workers have to bite the bullet.
All those people saying that they they’ll boycott P & O are wasting their time, P & O won’t care, like most ferry companies they make most of their money from freight, not John Doe and his family taking their car to The Dordogne.
Years ago I worked for a transport firm in Wapping, E. London, and we’d regularly take engineering plant from London to the French steelworks in Longwy, going via Dover to Calais.
One day the manager said, “Change of plans, you’re going to Longwy, but you’re going Newhaven to Dieppe.”
When I said that that was an extra 60-65 km, he said, “Maybe it is, but the Newhaven ferry is giving us a better rate.”
It was just a question about something I'd seen reported but not looked into, calm your jets!
Then lets try not to spread misinformation then by making statements up.
Not even live, it was a pre recording.
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Another company onto the long list of companies i will be avoiding and never giving a penny to! Horrendous way to treat your staff.
p&o have stated one of the reasons for the losses is the increased cost of the paperwork due to brexit and the drop in goods using their ferries as goods go straight to Eire instead of the UK. Again due to Brexit.
And lastly its only UK workers who were sacked. EU workers werent as they are protected under EU employment law
This is being investigated for breaches in UK employment law. There has to be a consultation period before redundancies, I'm sure it's something like 90 days.
Mind you I can see it from the company side too, these people have insanely beneficial contracts.
That makes sense.
But I wasn't aware that employment law for the UK had diverged already. When did that happen?
If, has been reported, they're employed by a Jersey based company, what does it have to do with UK employment law?
They're headquartered in Dover.
It was just a question about something I'd seen reported but not looked into, calm your jets!
Eh?
it might have since been debunked, but it was reported. Now you could just correct it, or point out the updated information. There isn't actually any requirement to be weirdly aggressive about it.
BBC article mentioned earlier that's exactly what they're looking at.
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Now that would be mega LOL, they lose 3 years 'savings' they would have otherwise made by having to repay the furlough
No it wasn't reported like you phrased it.
No debunking needed.
I doubt they can. I think it was clear across the economy that furlough payments was simply delaying the inevitable in a lot of sectors. These people would have been made redundant 2 years ago when no one was taking cruises. I bet P&O with hindsight regret not just doing it then.