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Employment Rights Bill ‘failing workers’ three years after P&O Ferries fire-and-rehire scandal
Former P&O staff and RMT members block the road leading to the Port of Dover as P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices, saying: ‘Our survival is dependent on making swift and significant changes’

THE Employment Rights Bill has significant loopholes on fire and rehire that fail “the very workers it claims to protect,” a union-backed think tank said today.

The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) issued the warning almost three years after P&O Ferries dismissed nearly 800 workers without consultation and replaced them with lower-paid agency staff.

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