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Patterns of behaviour…
P&O Ferries CEO Peter Hebblethwaite (above) today admitted to UK MPs that the company knowingly breached UK employment law in last week’s mass sacking of some 800 seafarers.
At a specially convened joint session of the all-party parliamentary transport and business select committees, Mr Hebblethwaite was asked by MPs: “Which employment law have you breached?”
He replied: “No consultation [with the seafarers], but we will compensate everyone for that.
He added: “P&O Ferries has lost hundred of millions of pounds over the last ...
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