P&O offers £100,000 to some sacked staff
Around 40 members of P&O Ferries staff who have been affected by the recent mass-sacking have been offered a £100,000 compensation package, according to reports.
In total, £36.5m has been offered to all 800 redundant staff.
The company said no employee would receive less than £15,000.
This follows controversy over claims that new agency staff were being paid less than £2 per hour.
P&O denied the claims, as well as denying that it broke the law when it sacked staff without prior warning.
Now, unions are claiming that the offer of compensation amounts to nothing more than “blackmail and threats”.
Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT union, said “pay in lieu of notice is not compensation”.
“These are the actions of a bully trying to maximise profits by sacking workers and replacing them with agency staff below the minimum wage,” he said.
“The pay in lieu of notice is not compensation, it is just a payment staff are contractually entitled to as there was no notice given.
“The way that the package has been structured is pure blackmail and threats.”
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