The Maritime & Coastguard Authority launched a rigorous review of each vessel before permitting them to sail while the government promised to cancel contracts and institute new employment laws that require all seafarers working on ships regularly operating from the UK to meet the country’s minimum standards. Scattered efforts to occupy some of the ferries failed but the company still faced weeks of disruption as it attempted to train the replacement contract labor. He told a hearing in front of a parliament committee that the company was faced with bankruptcy when they decided to lockout the employees announcing that they had all been dismissed during a brief video that ended by telling them to leave the ships and company property immediately. The company’s CEO Peter Hebblewaithe appeared to recognize the questions of the legality of its actions. P&O Ferries had said in response to the strong condemnations of its actions and a widespread union boycott that the company had no choice but to take the actions it did. The lawyer “concluded there was no realistic prospect of a conviction,” in the criminal matter but that a civil investigation is ongoing. The decision they said had been reached after conducting a criminal investigation which was further reviewed by an independent senior prosecution lawyer.
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“After a full and robust criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the employees who were made redundant by P&O Ferries, we have concluded that we will not commence criminal proceedings,” the Insolvency Service said in a brief written state published on Friday afternoon. Many however said because the company is in effect a foreign entity, owned by DP World, and since the ferries are all registered outside the UK, the company’s only obligation was to the flag states where the vessels are registered. That was the word from the UK’s Insolvency Service late today saying the case would not stand up in court.Īt issue was the contention of the unions along with members of parliament that the company under UK law was required to provide 45 days' notice before dismissing its employees and commence a consultation with its unions.
P&O Ferries is not going to face criminal charges in the UK for its actions firing roughly 800 seafarers with no advance notice and replacing them with lower paid contract workers in March 2022.
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