So, the Government are unable to prosecute P&O ferries due to an EU Directive (bitterly ironic, given earlier attempts by Remain cranks to claim Brexit was to blame for the actions of P&O bosses) that removes the need for shipping companies to notify the Secretary of State and merely requires them to notify the country where the vessel is registered (which P&O didn’t bother doing either but I can’t see Bermuda being all that bothered).
P&O have already told Shapps that they’ll be ignoring his demand for reinstatement:
The boss of P&O Ferries has said he will not resign or rehire dismissed crew, despite two of the company’s vessels being impounded over safety concerns.Peter
www.thetimes.co.uk
Workers face a choice of either acquiescing to the enhanced redundancy package, and thereby signing away their legal rights to go to ET, or risking it all at an ET.
This is the neo-feudal employment framework that Thatcher always longed for now fully visible. Every route to access to justice for workers closed off or too expensive to pursue.