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Shapps tells P&O Ferries to immediately reinstate 800 sacked staff

Government
James Chapple
28 March 2022

Grant Shapps has told P&O Ferries to reinstate the nearly 800 staff it sacked on the spot a week-and-a-half ago, and reiterated his belief chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite’s position had become untenable.

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In a letter to Hebblethwaite on Monday (28 March), Shapps said he would give the firm one final opportunity to reverse its 18 March decision to dismiss 786 UK seafarers without notification or consultation.