News / However, UK ports claim new ferry legislation may be 'unworkable'

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Members of the British Ports Association (BPA) believe the UK’s new ferry legislation, which will see ports enforce employment, is unworkable and could put them in a legal mire.

Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced that he was in the process of introducing legislation that would require all ferry operators operating out of the UK to pay the UK’s national minimum wage (NMW).

The legislation has been hastily drawn up in response to P&O Ferries’ mass sacking of all 800 of its seafarers ...