[Travel] P and O

[worthingseagull123]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60779001

Worrying

Is it still P and O out of Newhaven?

 

[Springal]

Either - some ties back to Russia from past investments

OR

Re-registering all their vessels to outside of the UK due to Brexit or something I reckon

 

[Pogue Mahone]

No, it's DFDS at Newhaven.

 

[el punal]

P and O?

Shouldn’t that read P6 0 points?

 

[atomised]

Either - some ties back to Russia from past investments

OR

Re-registering all their vessels to outside of the UK due to Brexit or something I reckon

Union are saying they're going to sack all their staff and replace them with cheaper labour

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Either - some ties back to Russia from past investments

OR

Re-registering all their vessels to outside of the UK due to Brexit or something I reckon

Plenty of British merchant ships are registered overseas now as a matter of course anyway, it's a far cheaper option. That's nothing unusual nowadays at all.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

[tweet]1504409049470836743[/tweet]

 

[Springal]

Union are saying they're going to sack all their staff and replace them with cheaper labour

According to the Times you could be right !

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Either - some ties back to Russia from past investments

OR

Re-registering all their vessels to outside of the UK due to Brexit or something I reckon

I'd say "current" instead of "past"

 

[atomised]

According to the Times you could be right !

Meridian reporting all staff made redundant with immediate effect

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Meridian reporting all staff made redundant with immediate effect

Redundancy has to follow due process. If agency staff are being brought in to do the same work, then the roles are not redundant.

 

[atomised]

Redundancy has to follow due process. If agency staff are being brought in to do the same work, then the roles are not redundant.

That's what I thought when I read it. Not sure how they can get away with it

 

[beorhthelm]

That's what I thought when I read it. Not sure how they can get away with it

usually by changing responsibilities, change the role.

the cost of redundancy and hassle of re-recruitment (even same people), impact to service (untrained replacements) usually steers business away from this. if P&O is going down this route suggests they have serious cost base problems and the alternative is cutting service or admin.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Either - some ties back to Russia from past investments

OR

Re-registering all their vessels to outside of the UK due to Brexit or something I reckon

Smashed to bits due to Covid

 

[Thunder Bolt]

usually by changing responsibilities, change the role.

the cost of redundancy and hassle of re-recruitment (even same people), impact to service (untrained replacements) usually steers business away from this. if P&O is going down this route suggests they have serious cost base problems and the alternative is cutting service or admin.

Seafarers still have to have maritime qualifications.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I know it's only Twitter, but it is the local MP

[Tweet]1504421582277652480[/Tweet]

Not looking good

 

[amexer]

Does this stem from a wages dispute ?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Edit

 

[atomised]

I know it's only Twitter, but it is the local MP

[Tweet]1504421582277652480[/Tweet]

Not looking good

Looks like it has all the makings of a PR disaster

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Looks like it has all the makings of a PR disaster

Sure does, although presumably P & O were prepared for some sort of public backlash.