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P&O Ferries offered payouts of up to £170,000 to sacked crew members

March 23, 2022
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P&O Ferries has revealed it offered payouts of as much as £170,000 to the crew members it sacked without notice last week, but also warned it could carry out yet another round of redundancies.

P&O on Tuesday announced it had set aside £36.5mn to cover payments to UK-based crew dismissed in order to cut costs by replacing them with cheaper agency staff.

The company said it was in discussions with 575 of the 786 seafarers who were sacked last Thursday, with payouts linked to their period of service.

Staff have been offered 2.5 weeks’ salary for each year employed as well as “up to” 13 weeks’ salary to compensate them for the lack of notice, and another 13 weeks on top to make up for the lack of consultation period.

About 40 employees will receive more than £100,000 and some will get more than £170,000. None of the workers would receive less than £15,000, the company added.

P&O only gave staff two weeks to decide whether to accept the payouts, and union bosses have said the severance agreements included a ban on talking to the media or attending protests. Unions have advised staff not to accept while they consider a legal challenge.

P&O and its Dubai-based owner DP World have come under intense scrutiny for refusing to enter into consultations with the unions and instead dismissing staff with no warning, many via a pre-recorded video.

UK ministers on Friday said P&O could have broken the law by failing to consult properly or to tell the government about the mass job losses.

P&O chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite sent a formal explanation of the events to business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng on Tuesday, in which he said he did not believe P&O had “committed any offence”.

“The very clear statutory obligation in the particular circumstances that applied was for each company to notify the competent authority of the state where each vessel is registered. All relevant vessels are registered outside the UK. Notification was made to the relevant authorities on March 17 2022,” he wrote.

The letter also raised the prospect of more sackings, and said some shoreside staff “may be impacted by the changes”. Further redundancies would include proper consultation, it added.

As the controversy blew up late last week, Hebblethwaite sent remaining staff a document explaining his decisions.

It said that the media reaction had been “very negative as expected”, but that by Friday the company was no longer the top story on the BBC or trending on Twitter, and therefore management expected that “we will not stay in the spotlight for much longer”.

But P&O has instead come under continued pressure.

Grant Shapps, UK transport secretary, on Monday raised the prospect of a consumer boycott of P&O. Meanwhile Hebblethwaite and a representative from DP World have been called to appear in front of MPs on Thursday to explain their actions.

“This has been an incredibly tough decision for the business: to make this choice or face taking the company into administration. This would have meant the loss of 3,000 jobs and the end of P&O Ferries,” P&O said on Tuesday.

Source: Financial Times

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