Rogue employers given ‘free pass to act with impunity’ after government failed to act against P&O Ferries, TUC warns
Mick Lynch (centre), general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) joins members of the union in a protest at Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster, London, to mark the anniversary of the sacking of hundreds of P&O workers
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TORY ministers have given rogue bosses a “free pass to act with impunity,” the TUC warns today on the first anniversary of P&O’s unlawful mass sacking of nearly 800 workers.
The intervention comes as the union body publishes a new report revealing that the government has failed to act on any of the four ways in which the disgraced ferry firm broke the law.
As a result, a similar scandal could be “on the cards,” said TUC general secretary Paul Nowak.
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