Laws to prevent a repeat of P&O Ferries scandal to go before MPs
The Guardian|October 10, 2024
Laws to ensure the P&O Ferries mass sackings scandal can never recur will be laid before parliament this week as Labour clamps downs on poor working conditions at sea.
- Gwyn Topham
Laws to prevent a repeat of P&O Ferries scandal to go before MPs

Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, said the new laws would close the loopholes exploited by P&O when it fired 800 crew without warning in 2022, and any company would now face unlimited fines for acting in such a way.

Provisions in the employment rights bill designed for seafarers will toughen laws around collective dismissal. The government will also pass regulations making cross-Channel ferry operators pay the national minimum wage of £11.44 an hour from 1 December under the Seafarers' Wages Act.

The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, said the changes would "benefit good employers to compete on quality and innovation, rather than a race to the bottom".

P&O Ferries, and Irish Ferries before it, had substantially undercut competitors' staffing costs by using agency workers on low wages.

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