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800 P&O employees "made redundant with immediate effect" (sacked)... by pre-recorded scripted Zoom call.

(The Telegraph) 17th March 2022

P&O Ferries has halted operations and announced it is laying off hundreds of seafarers, causing chaos at British ports.

The company, which operates the busy passenger route between Dover and Calais, suspended all services this morning and told ships to return to port.

In a statement, it said 800 seafarers have been made redundant and given payoffs with immediate effect.

SKB wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 18:58 800 P&O employees "made redundant with immediate effect" (sacked)... by pre-recorded scripted Zoom call.

(The Telegraph) 17th March 2022

P&O Ferries has halted operations and announced it is laying off hundreds of seafarers, causing chaos at British ports.

The company, which operates the busy passenger route between Dover and Calais, suspended all services this morning and told ships to return to port.

In a statement, it said 800 seafarers have been made redundant and given payoffs with immediate effect.

Scumbags

dmereifield wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 19:46

SKB wrote: ↑17 Mar 2022, 18:58 800 P&O employees "made redundant with immediate effect" (sacked)... by pre-recorded scripted Zoom call.

(The Telegraph) 17th March 2022

P&O Ferries has halted operations and announced it is laying off hundreds of seafarers, causing chaos at British ports.

The company, which operates the busy passenger route between Dover and Calais, suspended all services this morning and told ships to return to port.

In a statement, it said 800 seafarers have been made redundant and given payoffs with immediate effect.

Scumbags

Not sure of the laws in UK, but they could not do that here in Australia as the business would have to close

As if they employed someone else it would be a case of not being a genuine redundancy. To be a genuine redundancy no one needs to do the the job

They would be up for possibly huntress or thousands of dollars as it would be deemed an unlawful termination

Not necessarily, they could claim they have closed the entire department as it’s an “emergency” to save the business. There not reopening the department they have in effect sold it off by employing an agency to man assets as the budget stream is in a different part of the business. I’ve seen it done before. The very best that could come out of it is staff wise an HR1 is submitted and a 90 day consultation before there all laid off.

Having been thru several rounds of redundancy over the past few years any compulsory redundancies where I’ve worked usually means people are told there going and escorted off the premises immediately with security collecting there things there not allowed to log back in and they are paid there redundancy will sitting at home I suspect something similar will happen here. Still shity for those involved and some will feel like failures and find it difficult to talk about but they are not it’s really not your fault, best advise I could give is don’t panic take some time to think. Just remember your loyalty is to people not institutions.

The way P&O are behaving can only be described as disgusting. The government needs to get a grip and a real strategy over the UK maritime industry and merchant fleet. The Ukraine crisis should be a reminder to us all that bad things happen and can happen quickly - maritime trade is the life blood of the UK which cannot be so reliant on foreign companies and labour.

I just hope that the RFA is watching and they will try to fill the holes in their numbers.

Posting this here away from Op Pitting

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They still can't find out who authorised the green-light for Nowzad evacuation.

The Bank of England has issued a warning to shoppers ahead of the 30th September 2022 deadline whereby paper £20 and £50 notes will no longer be accepted.

If you have any paper notes in your wallet or under the bed, go trade them for newer plastic notes at a bank.

Anyone using paper notes to pay for items in retailers after the deadline will have their transaction rejected.

SKB wrote: ↑04 May 2022, 00:17 The Bank of England has issued a warning to shoppers ahead of the 30th September 2022 deadline whereby paper £20 and £50 notes will no longer be accepted.

If you have any paper notes in your wallet or under the bed, go trade them for newer plastic notes at a bank.

Anyone using paper notes to pay for items in retailers after the deadline will have their transaction rejected.

Think that is a bit rich

will they still be legal tender after that date at banks

I imagine a lot of old people will still have them and not be tech savy enough or know about the deadline

will they still be legal tender after that date at banks

I imagine a lot of old people will still have them and not be tech savy enough or know about the deadline

Yes, you'll be able to swap them for newer notes at the Banks (and possibly Post Offices that now offer banking services, but not 100% sure on that) for years to come.

..Of course, good luck finding an actual, physical Bank these days.

Number 10 Downing Street has said Boris Johnson was taken into hospital this morning for a 'routine operation on his sinuses' and will be recuperating for the next 24 hours. Dominic Raab is the acting PM.

The end of BoJo?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62048657

He's done for

The operation in No 10 is woeful. Guto Harri seems quite useless and a lot of the mess over Pincher seems to lay at his door. But BoJo did appoint both of them.

tomuk wrote: ↑06 Jul 2022, 02:53 The operation in No 10 is woeful.

Yes, true but he's also facing a London centric media & journalistic class, civil service and various other shadowy groups still enormously bitter over Brexit, who are determined to have their pound of flesh for his part in it.

Yes think the lefty and wets and anti Brexit crew will finally have their day and depose borris,I'm just waiting for the next pm trying to have a total love in with Europe ,GAWD help us the wets will take over

The next leader needs to win over the Tory membership, which means they need to to pro-Brexit, anti-alignment, pro-NI bill/anti-NIP and far less green/net Zero. For the next year or two, at least until the next GE, we will actually have a Conservative Government. I'm not sure the pro-EU, anti-Brexit, pro-SM liberals have thought this through...

Certainly need to get rid of the green stuff for now, restore pension cuts, and stop the lies, deceit and corruption from and within government.

Boris Johnson resigns

Boris Johnson has announced he is to resign today (7/7/2022). He will remain PM until the Conservative Party elects a new leader.
Meanwhile, Larry the Downing Street cat has now outlived three Prime Ministers, all who have resigned without completing a full term of office.

Could Theresa May be in for a shock return?!

Apparently Conservative Home have Ben Wallace as favourite to succeed and Penny Mordaunt as second favourite, followed by Liz Truss and Tim Tugendhat. What's the betting the Westminster clique ignore the grassroots?

Well the weasel swivel eyed snakes have managed to get rid of Boris ,I'm sure Putin will be laughing his cock off at the UK and Boris , welcome to the conservative wilderness and pro EU suck up ,as said GAWD help us

SKB wrote: ↑07 Jul 2022, 12:06 Could Theresa May be in for a shock return?!

If so, I volunteer to wield the electric cattle prod.

Supine, spineless waste of space she turned out to be.

Caribbean wrote: ↑07 Jul 2022, 12:20 Apparently Conservative Home have Ben Wallace as favourite to succeed and Penny Mordaunt as second favourite, followed by Liz Truss and Tim Tugendhat. What's the betting the Westminster clique ignore the grassroots?

Hard to see how this happens.
There are sufficient numbers of pro-Brexit, anti-EU, anti-woke, anti- net zero, pro-defence, anti-NIP MPs (ERG and others) to get a candidate either these views into the final two, said candidate would win the membership.

Could be Truss, maybe Raab, Patel or even Braverman, or maybe someone else. Won't be Wallace

It's irrelevant who they pick now cos it will just be a caretaker pm till the next election,at which point labour will get in and the new conservative pm will either resign ,get pushed out or stop in as opposition leader , either way they have screwed up ,or maybe that's the pro EU conservative plan ,ie get a pro EU conservative back in as pm or if lose election they not too arsed as a pro EU Starma in ,even if have too be in opposition for a while ,that's my take on it

Don't be so sure, people voted for Boris because he was patriotic and positive, mainly.

The next PM will have to be patriotic, Pro-union (I.e. anti SNP and anti-NIP) anti-woke and anti-net zero to win the working class Purple wall (essential to win the GE).
Starmer is none of those things, he can only win if the Tories elect a wet Liberal as leader. If they appoint a patriotic, Pro-union (I.e. anti SNP and anti-NIP), anti-EU, anti-alignment (i.e. anti- rule taking), anti-woke and anti-net zero party leader, they can win the next GE. In fact, they'd have a very good chance of beating pale, stale, anti-brexit, pre-second referendum, soon to be fined (but failed to honour pledge to resign) Sir Starmer.

Interesting times ahead, the liberals are going to be disappointed that they got their man

Jacob Rees Mogg would be my choice, if I had that choice.