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Originally Posted by nomadking
And many of them were shoreside workers? IE resident in Ireland or France.
So what are these valid, workable alternatives?
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The irony is, P&O has shut down discussion of alternative ways of saving money by illegally circumventing the usual process of notifying large scale redundancies well in advance and then running a consultation. While the applicable laws are those of Jersey, we have come to understand that in this area they are comparable to the UK. Notification and consultation should have happened. This isn’t the 1970s and the trade union could have been expected to engage constructively with the issues at hand. Workable alternatives could then have emerged through detailed examination of the company’s predicament over the next several months.
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Further to the above, there’s some suggestion that UK law applies here because the workers work ‘from’ the UK. That appears to over-ride foreign contracts or ownership of the business.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60792039