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Employment Rights Bill ‘failing workers’ three years after P&O Ferries fire-and-rehire scandal
Former P&O staff and RMT members block the road leading to the Port of Dover as P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices, saying: ‘Our survival is dependent on making swift and significant changes’
“At local level, it’s different."
THE Employment Rights Bill has significant loopholes on fire and rehire that fail “the very workers it claims to protect,” a union-backed think tank said today.
The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) issued the warning almost three years after P&O Ferries dismissed nearly 800 workers without consultation and replaced them with lower-paid agency staff.
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