Meanwhile, there are also calls for the self-employed to receive sick pay. Here are key headlines affecting travel on Monday 28 March.

Ferry operators to be forced to pay minimum wage

Ministers plan to force all ferry operators operating from UK ports to pay at least National Minimum Wage in a bid to persuade P&O Ferries to reinstate 800 sacked workers. Legislation will be introduced in the Commons later this week. P&O prompted outrage on 17 March when it replaced staff with agency workers paid less than minimum wage. (BBC News)

P&O Ferries negotiations “would have cost £300 million’

P&O Ferries found that it would cost £309 million to run the business while consulting with staff over job losses, as it mulled options to keep the company afloat. Bosses then decided to scrap consultation and sack 800 staff without warning. Months of consultation would have dealt a “fatal blow” to the firm, a source said. (City AM)

Call to extend sick pay to self-employed

The government faces calls to extend eligibility for sick pay as it emerged more than half of self-employed people were rejected from Covid isolation support payments, forcing them to rely on loans or savings. A fifth of all applications to test and trace support payments were made by the self-employed, research has revealed. (The i)