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Originally Posted by Pierre
This is possible because the UK has no Cabotage rules, it is possible to prevent this from happening if they change this.
I doubt something similar could happen in the US or other countries that have Cabotage rules
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Sounds to me like - in that respect - they may be taking somewhat advantage of the government allowing an exception for foreign truckers to transport in the UK to cover the shortfall in domestic workers being available.
Considering the alternative would have meant we didn't have anything to transport goods, that is obviously something they had to do.
But at the same time, doing this would allow other companies to use foreign workers to do similar transports.
It's an utter disgrace for P&O to do this and then rehire the British jobs using presumably foreign agency workers, based out of the UK, but it does appear if they aren't replacing directly, say they were using Indian workers instead of UK ones, then it seems to be possible these can be classed as genuine redundancies. Guess as their operation is global, unless there's some kind of licence consideration with sailing or docking on UK waters, then their staff could come from anywhere in the world.
I guess the situation is different if they are rehiring from a UK agency as that's closer to the roles they originally had but it is definite cost cutting exercise due to pandemic travel restrictions...