Remember P&O sacking 800 British workers? https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ts-record-breaking-profits-after-mass-sacking
Some problems with this though, aren't there? If I recall, the company is not UK-based and therefore does the minimum wage regime even apply? The second thing is that as I understand it, the sacked workers were all offered payouts in excess of what they could have obtained in damages for unfair dismissal claims, effectively neutralising their protests. So you have a choice of accepting what you would receive in a tribunal, or engaging in a costly and protracted legal fight in the hope of being awarded more. Johnson and his conspirators made noises of outrage at the time, but that seems to have come to nothing. But how different were the noises Shapps was making about the rail workers only this week? He would like them to be dismissed and replaced by agency workers (ignoring for a minute whether such pools of workers exist, waiting for Shapps to pick up the phone). Other Tories (I think including Truss and Rees-Mogg) have made noises in the recent past about further reducing the payouts to civil servants and other public sector workers when they are made redundant, which would make the P&O 'solution' even easier to fund in that sector. Let's not forget that when the Tories talk about "improving productivity" they normally mean fewer people doing the same work for less. Meanwhile, the P&O parent company rolls profitably on!
Arnt, you forgetting the British workers are the worst in the world according to Prim-Minister elect Liz Truss
