Paul Watkins wrote:Having used DFDS last weekend due to necessity, it struck me the ship I was on was cleaner, less cluttered & certainly appeared less staffed in the areas passengers could observe. It was efficient & safety announcements were different.
There is a marked silence on the take up of the P& O redundancy package numbers & even if the government ??? Insistence on staff re-enstatement were to materialise how many would take it?
The fifth paragraph of Hebblethwaite's response to Shapps details the take up figures at that time. Not really a marked silence.
The choice now for the employees is to accept the terms offered or to go for unfair dismissal which they would almost certainly win. The problem with that route is that compensation is restricted to 90 days salary which would be less than the package offered. P&O management (in reality DP World) would have been well aware of this.
In other words, forget about re-instatement. Shapps know about their plans well before they were announced.