The boss of P&O Ferries has told transport secretary Grant Shapps there will be no U-turn on the firm’s decision to sack nearly 800 UK seafarers and replace them with agency workers.
Responding to a letter from Shapps on Monday (28 March) urging him to reverse the cuts, P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite said doing so would result in the firm’s collapse and the loss of a further 2,200 jobs.
Shapps said the government would give P&O Ferries "one final opportunity" to reverse its decision, or find itself forced to through new legislation shoring up workers’ rights and guaranteeing minimum wage.
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