P&O workers

[Jack2jack]

Is this actually legal, shocking how these folk have been treated, made redundant via zoom call. Awful treatment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60779001

 

[exiledclaseboy]

It’s an abysmal way to treat people and I hope they don’t get away with it. Shameful.

 

[MajorR]

Read elsewhere that it was only British workers that were being sacked and that French workers jobs were safe on account of they have stronger employment laws to protect workers.

It’s also worth knowing the company which owns P&O ferries also owns the brand new Brexit inspired Thames Freeport - I believe it was formerly Tilbury.

 

[Ebo]

Read elsewhere that it was only British workers that were being sacked and that French workers jobs were safe on account of they have stronger employment laws to protect workers.

It’s also worth knowing the company which owns P&O ferries also owns the brand new Brexit inspired Thames Freeport - I believe it was formerly Tilbury.

Correct!

When we Brexited the EU Johnson wrote to all the courts in the UK explaining that there was no longer any legal right of appeal to the courts for being sacked or made redundant. The union may hold contractual obligations on behalf of members but legally they are now worth Didley-Squat! Yet the RMT told members to vote to leave. Redundancy arrangements are now as they were under UK law in 1965. This means, redundancy compensation arrangements only apply to staff over 26 years of age, on full time contracts and who have held those contracts for a minimum of 2 years.

P&O was bought out for 322m in 2019 by Dubai Logistics that then took millions in pandemic money from the UK govt. 40 per cent of DL is Russian owned. This is a revenge move. The UK govt can stop this by withdrawing the license from P&O that allows them to enter British ports. But will they?

 

[Pegojack]

Welcome to Tory post Brexit Britain. Congratulations all the working class British turkeys who voted for Christmas. The Spanish (socialist) government has just passed legislation massively strengthening workers rights in Spain.

 

[Uxy]

It's very doubtful this is actually legal, but so what. This is what people voted for when they voted for Brexit. Can't say they weren't warned.

Members of the Cabinet have been advocating for companies to have the ability to do this very thing. Suck it up buttercups.

 

[monmouth]

Brexit
Tory Donors
Government of cunts

Read somewhere Johnson was in Dubai two days ago. Not sure how true that is. 10-1 he’s a Russian agent. The Boris is hiding in plain sight.

 

[monmouth]

It’s an abysmal way to treat people and I hope they don’t get away with it. Shameful.

How can they get away with anything. We took back control remember.

 

[Sherpa]

Dover voted over 60% to leave.

Fuck em!

 

[K23]

We'll be back to the feudal system of 1000 years ago before you know it

 

[Darran]

Tory twát.

https://twitter.com/jj_bryant/status/1504861661668290563?s=21

https://twitter.com/kentmarxist/status/1504807005986426884?s=21

 

[Longlostjack]

People need to boycott P&O. Book DFDS or the Eurotunnel.

 

[Glyn1]

More honest Tory MPs have been quite open about this - they want the UK to move to become a low-wage economy with a bonfire on red tape and more flexible regulations on labour laws, and they're quite matter-of-fact about this. Judging from the forums in the Mail they have a lot of supporters, who are currently blaming P&O on "the Unions" and on "overpaid" P&O workers for making P&O unprofitable (and presumably giving them less dividends on their shares).

This next bit is completely irrelevant but I've never watched Downton Abbey and never will, because I assume the beautiful aristocrats there made at least part of their money from gouging the money from starving Welsh and northern English mining families, and that took place less than 100 years ago. History classes should be teaching that, rather than which king had how many wives and the rest of that garbage.

 

[Glyn1]

It's very doubtful this is actually legal, but so what. This is what people voted for when they voted for Brexit. Can't say they weren't warned.

Members of the Cabinet have been advocating for companies to have the ability to do this very thing. Suck it up buttercups.

But Brexit has nothing to do with it in this particular case.

Guardian article: "The straightforward statutory redundancy law is purely UK, it’s the redundancy consultation law that is EU-related and we haven’t changed that."

 

[MajorR]

Seems that the DFT were aware of this taking place after being told the night before.