He had completed 800 people to replace them with employees paid under the minimum wage: the “most hated chief in the United Kingdom” resignation

There should not be many of them to move from their departure. As reported by Sky News, the general director of the company P & O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, chosen “worse pattern of the world” in 2022, decided to resign.

“Peter Hebblethwaite has communicated his intention to give up his position as general director to spend more time to their family affairs,” the company said in a statement.

“P & O Ferries expresses his gratitude to Peter Hebblethwaite for his contribution as managing director in the last four years.”

Four years particularly agitated for P & O Hardly hit the Covid-2019 pandemic. To the point of dismissing in 2022 800 sailors during the night to replace them with externalized workers paid largely under the British minimum wage.

“The most hated man in the United Kingdom”

This brutal decision created a stupor in the United Kingdom, where Peter Hebblethwaite was described as “the most hated man in the country. The same year, he was chosen” worst pattern of the world “apart from the Congress of the Congress of the International Union (CSI), happened to the head of Ryanair Michael O’Leary before the founder of Amazon Jeff Wezos who had dated this title respectively of 2018.

For his defense, the head of P&P has continued to repeat that the company’s cost model was not sustainable and lost 100 million pounds per year. He had tried a parliamentary commission by explaining that P&O leaders had violated the law knowingly, with union negotiations that are mandatory. After these layoffs that were surprised in the United Kingdom, the British authorities launched investigations both on a criminal and civil level.

The express dismissal of the 800 sailors finally pushed the British authorities to legislate with the entry into force in 2023 of a law destined to allow “thousands of sailors who regularly enter the waters of the United Kingdom” prevent them from being paid less than the minimum wage. The text also establishes that the authorities charge the owners who do not prove that they pay their sailors at least to the British minimum wage and reject access to the ports of those who do not pay this overload.