'Are you just a shameless criminal?': P&O boss grilled over mass sackings
Guardian, 24 Mar 2022
P&O Ferries chose to sack 800 workers without consultation because ‘no union could accept our proposals’, the firm’s boss admitted to a Commons committee investigating the controversial decision.
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Furious MPs told Peter Hebblethewaite - who started the hearing with an apology - the firm was ‘behaving like gangsters’ and asked if he was ‘a shameless criminal’
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