When P&O Ferries terminated its sailings last month to suddenly sack nearly 800 employees via Zoom it marked a new low point in maritime labour relations in Europe.
The insensitivity of the move was only matched by P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite’s jaw-dropping statement to a UK Parliamentary Select Committee that — despite the widespread condemnation of his company’s actions — he “would make the same decision again”.
