P&O ferry boss cornered for robbing staff blind in Select Committee grilling

[@whitsthecraic]

DO NOT USE P&O FERRIES! This is absolutely scandalous that these bastards pay this money. This CEO was paid £508,000 last year!

[@daydays12]

a slimeball he is

[@colin9967]

Not used them since .

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

Its the clowns that agree.To work for such low pay .

[@Storm.Z.4u]

By CEO standards he was poorly paid then.

[@jamesmckay435]

@@Storm.Z.4u International minimum CEO rate?

[@3brenm]

£2.86 an hour from a big company in 2024 is psychopathic.

[@مرحبابك-ض1ن]

This is how the rest of the world treats workers without protections we take for granted in Britain. Vote carefully

[@3brenm]

​@user-ms7gt2km5f oh i know. Stay vigilant. Nothing is a given. Everything we take for granted must be fought for, as it was in the past.

[@dougaltolan3017]

Plus bonus, plus overtime rate for guaranteed hours. But, that overtime deal really means you're effectively contracted for a lot more work.

[@turboslag]

No, it's slavery!!

[@greenknitter]

​@@dougaltolan3017No-one should have to work such disgustingly low basic pay. Overtime or bonuses should be on top of a living wage basic rate.

[@terryloftus3207]

THIS piece of garbage is excatly why we need unions.

[@dougaltolan3017]

Sadly for staff, this piece of garbage can hire from countries that don't have unions.

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

It's exactly why they've been attacking them since Empress Thatcher's war on workers rights.

[@3brenm]

A stark reminder

[@Thereisnospoonforyou]

It was the militant unions that got the P&O staff sacked

[@molybdomancer195]

@@Thereisnospoonforyouno it wasn’t. It was shareholder/management greed

[@davidrussell3890]

Half a million a year for the ceo £2.86 an hour for the workers. This morally corrupt man should be jailed

[@Robert-cu9bm]

These workers tend to be from Philippines etc.... It's like arguing how can Britain pay such a lie wage compared to Luxembourg

[@alistairbeveridge2753]

I’m all for him going to jail, on ONE condition, it’s only those who call for imprisonment, pay for his imprisonment. Most taxpayers are burdened enough without paying to keep this in a lifestyle, fed , watered, clothes on his back and roof over his head, that’s not JUSTICE, and ALL the corrupt politicians calling him out are doing the exact same to this country, flooding it with cheap labour illegals, wake up ffs

[@Booonicus]

Just done the maths on 260 working 8 hour days. They would have to work 84 years to earn his annual 500k.

[@dodgem259]

P&O used to have many UK workers who under employment law were entitled to UK minimum wage. P&O ferry boss said the company was not sustainable in the current climate due to being heavily affected by the restrictions of covid. So, according to the P&O boss he broke UK employment law and sacked every single UK employee on the day without any notice or consultation period which is required by law. What is worse the man admitted that he broke UK law and was very brazen about it. He then goes employs agency staff under what is known as international wages, wages that are not regulated by any country BUT is a set amount which any company operating internationally such as ferries, container ships, cargo ships and airlines. The problem with international wages is that they are extremely low which is a loop hole that the P&O boss has used to get cheap labour. What he did is a disgrace and the company should be boycotted but what is worse still is that the UK public do not care because thousands of them are still using P&O for their holiday cruises.

[@andrewtorrens947]

P&O cruises are aTOTALLY DIFFERENT COMPANY....stop confusing them with P&O SCUMBAG(Ferries)!!!

[@oldneo4309]

Great points

[@tonycarroll6632]

Boycott them.

[@toriesout8692]

It’s hard as they monopolised and many goods can only travel into Northern Ireland using them.

[@Hanoth]

That's hard to do being that they are no longer simply a ferry company. They now have container ships which import/export huge amounts of commercial items. Boycotting them may mean quitting cucumbers one day, shoes the next and putting fuel in your car on the following day.

[@simonmarshall3869]

I will just put my Van on the plane then. International waters between france and the UK? what a bastard

[@gazman2626]

Easier said then done. They have a monopoly

[@thespectre717]

Boycotting will not work

[@parametr]

Sounds like P&O did exactly what everybody knew they wanted to do. And the UK government allowed it. And the French government is not going to allow it.

[@daveshannon418]

Exactly!

[@stevecoppin6396]

i just can't work out why these people were keen on brexit

[@JP-hu8wi]

Yeah this is all performative. Nothing is going to be done here. All this guy has to do is not have any shame and turn up to these committees. That’s it

[@tomricketts7821]

The French government is not run by a bunch of public school educated aloof elitist psychopaths

[@harryunderhill5041]

@@stevecoppin6396 The UK minimum wage was at the time £10.42 an hour but for maritime workers employed by an overseas agency, who work on ships which are foreign-registered in international waters, the rates do not apply. The UK expects new legislation addressing the issue to become active this summer while France brought in a similar law this year. It's got little or nothing to do with Brexit or the EU if France had to close the same loophole while still being a member of the EU.

[@samsoncooper1]

£600 million in profits for half a year and they pay their staff nothing. Disgraceful.

[@glynnwadeson5605]

That’s how they make their profits! Wonder what the boss’s pay comes to in total.

[@ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333]

You mean *wage slaves, not 'staff.' There's nothing to complain about.

[@joey3088]

Weren't they only recently on the brink of bankruptcy? Now £600m in profits, whilst firing UK staff and re-hiring cheaper foreign labour on pittance 'salaries'.

[@jonny4044]

But the poor shareholders. They need their dividends!

[@marcsarzi4636]

But on the other hand their ferries are so cheap.... not!

[@killlinepestcontrol]

This man is clearly untrustworthy.

[@davidjohnson5369]

And this is why I will NEVER use P&O ever again

[@Shephard1978]

I think it’s “important” that this criminal is locked up!

[@coderider3022]

It’s legal, that’s his point.

[@Alfadrottning86]

He is NOT doing ANYTHING illegal... so you cannot - should not - punish him. It is UK sovereignty and laws that enable him to do this. As you heard - French sailors get paid appropriately .. P&O can only exploit those that are not bound by a legal framework like that and work by international law. And he is of course correct ... 2 pounds and something might sound little to an English person - but for someone from - oh, i dont know .. Sri Lanka? - it might be average. He can do that legally, because you people vote for politicians that allow it.

[@Shephard1978]

@@Alfadrottning86 May not be illegal but it’s pretty amoral! I have never voted for the politicians that allow this in my life!

[@Royboy50]

It’s important to know nothing will happen to him

[@Alfadrottning86]

@@Shephard1978 "you" as in .. the majority (and yes, yes, i mean the 1st past the post majority) It is undeniable that not only have Brits given the Tory party, that does not hide that it is anti-regulation, pro charter cities/freeports, anti-international courts etc. their votes; - Brits also voted for Brexit ... an idea/ideal that favours those ideas that this CEO showcases. the only thing is .. people tend to see only THEIR benefits, their advantages .. they do not WANT to see their downfalls. Want to take a bet how many Brits would gladly subscribe to leaving the ECHR? Rationally .. you d have to be abysmally dumb to support it .. yet, i fear that it is quite a lot of people .. likely still a minority .. but if the Tory machine went into full gear - along with the Tory media, the Farages, Murdochs, Bannons etc. - i would not be so sure about that. Brits might cheerfully celebrate the day they left the ECHR.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

*If a business can't exist without underpaying its workers, it doesn't deserve to exist.*

[@TheSwevans]

One word for that statement "Farmers" think about that

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

@@TheSwevans That onyl makes sense as some kind of criticism if you assume I subscribe to the commodification of food ;)

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

@@mikeclifford7740 In other words, profits are subsidised. Corporate welfare. These companies need to buy less avacado toast and mansions, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work harder to get of the government teet.

[@BOZ_11]

@@TheSwevans Farmer owners/operators are a lot wealthier than the average worker. Think about that

[@ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333]

They're not being underpaid though. Their salary would make them millionaires in a lot of developing countries.

[@gutembodiement]

He's proud of the fact that he claims to have been paying £5.15 per hour! So generous!!!! Tax the scumbags!!!!

[@heathershone7804]

This is all down to Tony Blair who was a labour PM. All he did was screw the workers who voted for him. And it will not change when people vote in the next labour government.

[@christopherjennings1462]

The same argument as we had as civil engineers when looking at mean payment across the board, which included unskilled shop workers etc. was about right !!!! compare apples with apples is saying we will compare a skilled worker in this case a qualified engineer with a street cleaner !!!

[@pencilme1n]

But he doesn't pay that, it's £2.18. Holiday pay and overtime has been included in the basic hours worked to arrive at the minimum hourly wage rate. I've never heard it quoted like that before. These sailors are sleeping rough on shore leave in UK ports because they can't afford accommodation.

[@lastlast2078]

I'm so sick of these committee's, just MP's pretending to do their job and criminals like him walk out free.

[@lastdimestudios]

There needs to be a world wide boycott to P&O including any other company not paying a real living wage.

[@ovidiumiinea5462]

That P&O boss is what a pig in human form looks like. Thief in suit

[@sufmeister786]

Insult to pigs.

[@MattOatesUK]

hey now pigs are really beautiful animals full of grace and intelligence don't sully their image by comparing to this guy!

[@ruairihair]

Profiting from misery and misleading the committee... perfectly legal :|

[@noelfleming3567]

Normal for these people they don't want staff they want slaves 😮😮

[@HashCake]

Exactly right all of this is a sham for the public, just a waste of tax payers money if there's no end result, all this bollox about apples for apples.

[@AlwaysAGunnerNeverAGooner]

This is pointless. They sit and embarrass whoever is on trial. But nothing changes........

[@FlaviadaRocha-c5m]

No one is 'on trial'. If they were, this might all go differently.

[@AlwaysAGunnerNeverAGooner]

@@FlaviadaRocha-c5m again point less why are they there thenn?

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

Committees and enquiries are a dereliction and distraction from accountability. It's more a show of MPs self importance to look like they actually do something or even care. They'll all be off to the bar or restaurant at public expense when it's over for the day.

[@Tumbleweedenthusiast]

​@@AlwaysAGunnerNeverAGoonerso us mugs see this, get confused at the difference between a committee and a court and think that this country actually holds wealthy people to account for their crimes.

[@ronpepoli37]

Exactly it's just talking no action same as convid enquiry

[@BeardedWebb]

"our safety record has increased by 66%" What a completely nonsensical statement.

[@ay2deet578]

Increased from what?

[@andrewbartlett8942]

Same as the wages

[@johnbloomsmar7399]

WATCH THIS VIDEO IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. This man has no morals whatsoever the only thing he is interested in is making as much money £££££ as he can at what cost does not come into the equation, he treats his crews like porns and will treat them as he sees fit whenever it suits as this video shows , when P&O was manned by English Crew it was the same fully trained crew week in week out, as for the Officers that was also supposed to have been made redundant with the ratings 2 years ago they got a bonus but also kept their jobs. This man cannot be trusted if possible please use another ferry company but not P&O please boycott using them.

[@BinaryRoberto]

The fact that he said so self-convincingly that he paid five pounds per hour as if it is anything more then pocket change. Utterly despicable.

[@thespectre717]

It won’t happen because the uk government never holds these fucking assholes to account

[@Storm.Z.4u]

What do you want, him to lie and pretend they pay them more?

[@annoloki]

This is very normal across the shipping industry, that's why ships are mostly staffed by people from poor countries where low wages are the norm

[@christopheroliver8762]

Why is this guy not in prison? He not only broke the law. He did so purposefully, willfully, and confessed openly to his crime. The fact he will walk out of this meeting a free man is an insult to every working person.

[@Geoff900]

Money. His lawyers and company will protect him.

[@annoloki]

International waters isn't British jurisdiction, so no, it's not a crime

[@grrfy]

@@annoloki British Waters are , and we could easily do what the USA maritime laws do.

[@Thereisnospoonforyou]

@@grrfy so are you a lawyer then or just a spotty student who knows f all

[@sarabevan3468]

​​@@grrfyThink you hit a nerve with them below 🤭! Or above.

[@barrydaly7174]

Psychopathy gets you to the top of Business these days. Shame and guilt is alien to this piece of greedy sht.

[@MrTonydrew]

absolutetely correct ... psycopaths are now successful in business and politics alike !! Philosopher KIngs that Plato refers to is what this world needs!!

[@michaelmcginley7930]

Correct but surely at some point in their life karma injured them

[@sufmeister786]

Gluttony

[@johnabbiss43]

I will certainly avoid using P&O ferries in the future and spread the truth about this shameful and sad Company Thank goodness this video was posted Well done 👍🏻 😮

[@andrewtorrens947]

I hope you never used them after they sacked every British worker on their boats and employed cheap foreign labour who did not know one end of ship from the other....if you have used them since then...shame on you!!!

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

It's the politicians who allowed it to happen. They knew this was going on at the time, and did nothing. As usual, the big crooks in parliament are the worst of the lot.

[@kersfieldhousertmcoltd5425]

This fellow has all the qualities required by the Post Office for their senior management team.

[@cassandratq9301]

🎯🎯🎯

[@Mrlawtonst]

Horrible, disgusting company that everybody needs to avoid

[@LeeCorne]

These are slavery wages

[@greentroll9326]

they are not even wages

[@annoloki]

For a west European population, yes... not unusual in much of Asia tho

[@z0rgMeister]

Slaves were given bed and board by their masters. These human stains don't even have to plan for that.

[@Tinywars]

Slaves don't get paid so no they aren't.

[@blue_tree_meadow]

I'm so sick of these heartless, greedy, profiteering monsters.

[@James-bc1jk]

This is the whole of the uk at the moment because the British people do nothing

[@JohnHunter-m8d]

But he looks so honest...I joined the UK merchant navy 47 years ago and crew in those days had their own cabins, their own restaurant, their own bar etc. He makes it sound like P&O have just discovered a unique way of treating people.

[@oldmanpickle]

His eyes are empty. A human means nothing to him.

[@DJDAVINCI]

Not a soul in those eyes.

[@abc33944]

That’s Corporates!!

[@rickreads4674]

Just another example that if you don't regulate companies, they will take the piss. If a company can't be run privately without slavery, then it shouldn't exist.

[@shrimpoffthebarbie]

Just don't allow them into port in the UK.

[@truth-hurts]

Am I wrong, I thought Britain had outlawed slavery?

[@jsd8981]

Nope not even close !!!

[@dougaltolan3017]

We have, but this isn't slavery it's more akin to piracy!

[@Nikolai508]

It's not slavery if you throw pennies at them apparently.

[@ljt3084]

@@dougaltolan3017 If you think Britain outlawed slavery then look into the tea picking industry in Kenya predominantly owned by one British company who debt trap their workers for life and pay less of an hourly rate than this and no benefits pensions holiday pay etc.

[@Thereisnospoonforyou]

@@ljt3084and how would those people live if they didn’t have the tea job

[@MrVillamike]

This miserable excuse of a human being is the reason why workers are going back to Edwardian times. This crook should be in jail for exploitation.

[@thisismetoday]

4:08 As a labour rights expert regularly conducting social audits and knowing full well international ILO conventions and the laws that govern minimum wage, let me say: You won’t be surprised to hear that that is NOT how you calculate hourly pay. Bonus pay has nothing to do with hourly pay, because bonus fluctuates and is not paid out equally to each member of staff if at all. I don’t know what he means with holiday pay. It seems like he is referring to a payout of money that workers receive annually as they couldn’t take their LEGALLY REQUIRED annual leave. Annual leave should only be restricted in very rare circumstances and should not be by design be calculated as a payout! Lastly, he says guaranteed overtime pay. Again, workers shouldn’t be required to work overtime because the hourly pay rate is not sufficient to live off. This goes to the actual heart of the matter. Also, again, overtime should only be worked in rare instances, and NOT by design. Now on ships, shift work is common and shift patterns can be such that long work days for several weeks are compensated by prolonged time off after, but that is a different story and doesn’t negate the fact that overtime (or annual leave pay) is not to be counted as hourly pay. There is NO SUCH THING as ‘consolidated hourly pay’. This is laughable.

[@jmyd83]

Jail Him

[@pallascat1743]

They should be jailed.

[@gothicgolem2947]

Sadly it’s legal

[@wuntbedruv3477]

Well all I can say is anyone using P&O should thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Excuse after excuse after excuse.

[@toni6053]

Absolutely this.

[@colin9967]

Not used them since they sacked all of their staff , tell all of your friends because people don't know . They can then at least make a conscious decision whether or not to use P&O ferries . There are alternatives.

[@LordMungo]

Doesn't look like he gets paid under the minimum wage! It's pure corporate greed! And he is trying to justify it with figures!

[@MartinQuick]

I would happily boycott P&O as this is shameful, but how much do DFDS and Irish Ferries, etc. pay their staff?

[@TheComputec]

A minimum of the national minimum wage for the country they are are employed from

[@murphyandmurphybrand]

Disgraceful. These companies deserve to go bust.

[@ossianx8752]

Stop using them and they will --- perhaps if P&O didn't have to pay spurious net zero/carbon hysteria primary and secondary charges - we'd have cheaper tickets, the staff would get paid properly and the environment/climate would be just fine .....:-)

[@1inchPunchBowl]

@@ossianx8752 Anything you say shill. Good grief.

[@robinroberts2568]

​@@ossianx8752This is simply unfettered corporate greed. Green policies have nothing to do with it. These companies don't want to meet green targets for the same reason they don't want to pay their staff properly: shareholder profits.

[@ossianx8752]

@@robinroberts2568 - True but all the green policies do is make tickets more expensive which limits the options for the less well off, the higher costs are passed on in the higher cost of everything…. Yet these people who claim to care about the environment and emissions are quite happy adding millions and millions of people to our population- which means more pollution m, more emissions and more concrete over nature …. Bravo for the hypocrisy!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@tedmaul5842]

A prime example of a company that shouldn't be in business. Their business model is dependent on paying poverty wages. I wonder how much money P&O donate to the Conservative party.?

[@molybdomancer195]

The Dover MP tried to pretend she was against the behaviour of P and O but the workers knew better and chanted “shame on you” at her.

[@sarkybugger5009]

@@molybdomancer195 She shouted it herself a couple of times, before she realised they were chanting *at her.* As thick as mince...

[@sufmeister786]

And now she’s come over to Labour. Is New Labour anything but Tory Lite! All disgusting.

[@sarabevan3468]

And yet still...😔🤬

[@sarabevan3468]

​@@molybdomancer195And now Labour have accepted her now! Shame on you Stamer! (And I was die-hard labour but that was final straw! Her and her excuses for her filthy husband)!

[@adrianashby1033]

It is so self evident that this has been rehearsed many times. He clearly has so much to hide and was terrified of an ad hoc slip up, his lawyers will have scripted ALL responses and ensured he only answered with the exact words prepared.

[@1398go]

Brian Thompson would be so proud of you, he’s looking down smiling at you.

[@robertgavin980]

Normal rate- + overtime - + holiday pay -- £5 . Tremendous if you can pick up your wages in a time machine.

[@LeeCorne]

They're actually in French and British waters and their competitors on the Dover-Calais route already pay way more than P&O.

[@molybdomancer195]

Yes. I would never use P and O

[@onlyscott2573]

Remember when the UK minimum wage was implemented by Tony Blair the tories voted against it every step of the way. This is how the big uk businesses would behave without that safeguard - it was one of the most important steps ever for working class people.

[@youknow6968]

Excellent point.

[@arghjayem]

Sure, but if minimum wage doesn’t keep up with inflation it’s still not great. If the minimum wage had kept up with inflation over the past 20 years, it would be more like £20 an hour- almost double what it is currently!

[@El_Paracleto]

Agreed, check out this guy's salary and bonus for last year as a contrast to what they pay their workers...

[@youknow6968]

@@arghjayem are you sure £20 an hour? that seems like a high figure.

[@claudiafigueiredo4979]

And they are asking to leave human rights in uk this is wht will happen to ppl

[@neilsmith1736]

G’day from Brisbane Queensland Australia. Bring that P&O thief over here to Australia and let him try that in front a Federal Senate enquiry. And he would be told answer the questions correctly or you could face major fines of up to $100000.00 and or serious Gaol time of not less than one year. What a grub this person is to treat his employees with such disdain, he hasn’t the balls to take on the mighty CFMMEU and the Maritime Union of Australia division. P&O and the Liberal Conservative has been taught a very hard lesson do not try that international shit here or you will suffer the consequences for your actions and misdeeds against any worker. The Questioner should be asking this dill how he and P&O fairs in Australia with this sort of attitude to workers.

[@computerbob06]

He says they operate in international waters......... Just ban them from docking in British ports!

[@johnobrien8398]

This man is very very greedy how can anyone live on that hourly rate he really is a very very very nasty employer.

[@ajf1989]

Our government have allowed them to get away with this. 🙈

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

Yes at the time the government said they'd face the full force of the law and it was later confirmed that there was no protection against this.

[@ajf1989]

@@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207 they had the opportunity to change the law on fire&rehire when British gas did the same thing a few years ago. The government chose not to.

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

@@ajf1989 that's my point.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

I will walk a long way to boycott this absolute horror show.

[@markwildphotography]

He almost boasts about the £5.20 😂 Disgusting.

[@richardclowes7428]

Everyone seems to be jumping up and down in horror. £4 an hour is shockingly low if you live and work in the UK agreed, but this company isn't operating within the UK...it's operating in international waters and employs an international workforce. If you happen to be Indian and get paid £4 an hour you'd think all your Xmases came at once because the minimum wage there is about 27p an hour.....come a little closer to home and Albania a neighbour of Greece and a country on tthe edge of Europe and the min wage is about £2 an hour. Come into Europe and Portugal min wage is £4.40. Bulgaria which is still in Europe is about £2.70....You won't find anyone from Albania, Portugal, Bulgaria complaining

[@thisismetoday]

5:04 - 5:45 What he is implying here without actually saying it, is that they will most likely continue to only comply with ILO and MLC standards (i.e. international labour laws). He has no intention of complying with either French or UK law. My guess is their vessels are not sailing under the UK flag. Oftentimes, companies sail under random flags like Bermuda to avoid being bound by countries with strong labour laws. 9:50 Ah yes. It’s a very common practice to use agencies and staff from low-wage counties, because it does exactly what I said above. It allows you to circumvent compliance with the high labour standards of the country.

[@tony8074]

There are no words in the english language that can adequately describe the deprivation of this man.

[@reedp44]

Would he work for less than £3 per hour and even if the pay £5.15 that is still disgusting

[@dougclark9921]

"P&O's chief executive said he earned a £325,000 basic salary and received an £183,000 bonus in April 2023" £280 per hour depending on bank hols and annual leave

[@reedp44]

@@dougclark9921 disgraceful greedy sod and he expects his staff to work for starvation wages

[@3brenm]

He would not and would not even have to consider it.

[@abc33944]

Slavery has always existed and so much as it does today !

[@Thereisnospoonforyou]

@@3brenmhe has skills and qualifications so doesn’t work minimum wage jobs

[@Scoobyoneknobi]

We have no problem recruiting workers, there are millions of desperate people we can exploit,I thought exploitation was illegal.

[@whatsthatnow308]

On the contrary, it's very much alive and well. Have a gander at the rental market in the UK, a whacking great slice of exploitation with a huge dollop of extortion spooned on top.

[@annoloki]

How much do you think the people who made your phone or computer were paid? Your shoes, clothes... "millions of desperate people"?? Try billions.

[@darrenburns16]

​@@annoloki I am under no disillusion of his fact. Very sad fact. 😢

[@theplasticsurgeon1956]

aided and abetted by HM government, lets face it despite the hot air when P&O sacked the UK crews not one measure was taken by the Tory government in support of the sailors against P&O

[@cassandratq9301]

Hopefully new government can do better.

[@michaelwalsh7537]

What an utter scumbag he should be made to pay all his employees back pay😡

[@andrewforrester8386]

He's a criminal, nothing more

[@tom4626]

He might be morally bankrupt but the company isn’t breaking the law so I don’t see how this guy is a criminal….btw I don’t think it’s right and they should pay more but I know this cost would be passed to the customer.

[@rorz999]

​@@tom4626he knowingly broke the law! Look it up. He sacked staff with no notice and without consulting the recognised trade unions

[@garethbuckeridge6910]

@@tom4626 have you seen the price of food on a p&o ferry 🤣🤣🤣

[@tom4626]

😂 ok fair point

[@kdog3908]

Deflection from the first words out of his mouth. Despicable toad.

[@ossianx8752]

Yes, it is funny how they can pay all these carbon taxes, employ diversity and equity people to ruin, sorry, run their business model but they can;t afford to pay the front line staff anything ?! ---- Oh wait, maybe, just maybe ...... if they didn't have to pay for non jobs, idealisms and climate hysteria they'd have more money to pay staff ? and our tickets could be cheaper too ?!

[@calvinlimgo]

People should really boycott them

[@alanthorburn5073]

Can you imagine this Guy having a beer in the pub at the next table.

[@ianpritchard6375]

"We didn't sack anybody!" Jeez. What planet is this guy on?

[@banzaiman1]

That's absolutely shocking. No one can live on that.

[@Scott-ky3xc]

James 5:4. If P&O are using a recruitment agency, that agency will be getting paid. The global agenda of businesses not having staff on salary- but putting them on employment contracts with no job security must stop.

[@robertharvison6162]

spot on its a race to the bottom everywhere

[@claudiafigueiredo4979]

And this is wht leaving human rights will do in uk

[@greentroll9326]

no it will not we already have a minimum wage ands thas is not set by the echr ffs

[@paulgibbons2320]

Correct

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

No Parliament can bind its successor so the minimum wage could be cancelled tomorrow if the government wished.

[@Lynnefromlyn]

@@greentroll9326never mind FFS! Are you one of the creeps who want us out of the ECHR? That is the last bastion of our rights and protections, things the bloody tories have been whittling away since Brexit. Political illiteracy is responsible for so much crap in this country now.

[@appleejack]

Don't let them in the UK waters unless they agree to pay min wages.

[@andyt2k]

Look at his first answer on safety record, that's barely a human response. The international standards are horrific so we pay slightly more than that

[@fireburn95rs]

this man is pure evil

[@fireburn95rs]

@@keithpop3097 saying that it's okay because 'employees choose' is the dumbest and most incorrect argument only simple minded fools use. There's a minimum wage and living wage for a reason, that to survive it takes x amount per hour. If they hire people from the UK, they should pay our minimum wage. They have an international min wage mainly for workers in lower paid countries where they need a lower wage to stay in business, as goods and services are way cheaper there.

[@supernube6659]

this toad has a £325,000 a year basic salary, not including bonuses he likely awards himself and lives in a £1.5 million mansion in the cotswalds. He must work so much harder than those sea farers surely

[@obtuse1291]

£2.86! He didn't realise it was that much. He'll get right onto that as soon as he gets back to the office. 😂

[@jbeeuk2007]

so the hourly page only goes up to £5.12 or whatever it is because the calculate the paid holiday into it?

[@23879988]

This man is a monster

[@wandelust]

He seems to be proud of the rate P&O are paying!!! Absolutely shocking!!

[@mawkernewek]

6:52 made me laugh. Do you think you could live on £4.87 an hour? and he says "No"!

[@Mightypi]

Yeah, every time he crokes " consolidated rate pay 5£ blah" , that should be the question, could you live on that, they why do you expect them to

[@chad0x]

What a disgrace. Guy should be utterly ashamed of himself.

[@TaniaSaucy]

I worked for P&O in the 90''s and my monthly salary was, at the time, $80. I worked 12 to 14 hours a day and the money we received was from the passengers, in the form of recommended amount in tips ! It was degrading how you would stand there, in the end of the Cruise, hoping your passengers, that you served throughout the whole cruise, would tip you something and every time we got the recommended amount we would be almost shocked as the usual was get half of what you deserved or nothing at all. Working on the ships, in my case the P&O, was something I regret to this day.

[@chriswestwood6490]

"... because exchange rates move about" 😂

[@muirislandjim453]

That was wild 💀

[@kalebdaark100]

As an international business we feel we should be able to get away with paying staff as little as the international markets will bare.

[@greymouser8659]

''So, 'Yes'.....in response to the commitees question....We are operating offshore slavery'' 💩

[@samsdad1952]

seems the barrels are full of rotten APPLES i will never book a p & o ferry again

[@ronwharton086]

If they are acting unlawfully, then they should be prosecuted.Way is it so hard to processes this simple fact

[@TheComputec]

It isn't unlawful (technically), it is just immoral

[@SimonWalker-f1l]

this is not a healthy or safe man. look at his eyes. all my instincts say Keep Away as soon as I saw him.

[@Scoobyoneknobi]

It's important you compare apples with apples, and shite with shite. If you pay staff less, he the board and the hardworking shareholders can have more. Simples.

[@Zoro007]

This guy's a shoe in for running the Post Office......😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@stevepalmer2389]

Who'd have thought that P&O really stood for Piracy & Oppression! 🤔

[@peterleonard7939]

Pay him that rate and see what he says!

[@JOEJOETOTTENHAM]

Capitalism at its finest..

[@greenknitter]

Am sick of late stage capitalism, the psychopaths that dictate our lives and their toadies in government.

[@kevinb9830]

He's being called on it, in a capitalistic society...

[@Hill_Walker]

Working exactly as intended, nothing will change.

[@paulgibbons2320]

​@kevinb9830 where it is legal.

[@ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333]

How is this an issue? If the employees thought they were 'underpaid' then they're free to look elsewhere to satisfy their greed.

[@mm5478]

“Increasingly safe fleet of ships.” Wasn’t that the White Star Lines motto after Titanic sank?

[@sandydobbie1255]

A masterclass in lying from P&O !!!

[@geoffreybarrett5000]

These workers are well paid compared to the standards of the countries that they come from, why can’t people understand that.

[@6AnimalMother9]

He is so uncomfortable during this grilling. I like it.

[@philipriley2253]

I won't travel with P&O, if there's somewhere I wanted to go & the only option was them then I simply wouldn't go. Wonder what his pay scale is...

[@mvashton]

Reportedly it is £508,000 per year. £325,000 basic and £183,000 bonus

[@johnmc2514]

Eyes of a sociopath

[@sarabevan3468]

Like Angela van Didn't Bother.... (Sorry wrong select committee/inquiry but just goes to show, big businesses are all only interested in shareholders and their own bonuses 🤬🤬).

[@polmcsuibhne7657]

five pound an hour ...omg....thats disgusting..........................

[@welshgit]

P&Os chief executive said he earned a £325,000 basic salary and received an £183,000 bonus in April 2023. "I reflected on accepting that payment. But ultimately I did decide to accept it" he said. "I do recognise it is not a decision that everybody would have made."

[@bethbovey7566]

Highest of standard seafarers for under 3 quid an hour!!

[@archwombat9250]

He shouldn’t have been allowed to keep saying consolidated when holidays are included. He is taking the holiday pay and spreading it across the the worked pay thus making the holidays unpaid. I suspect he has done the same with the overtime. Work an extra four hours on your 8 hour shift and we will pay you for those hours meaning you’ve earned 50% more on your 8 hour shift hourly rate.

[@anthonymiley188]

3rd party agents are just a way of blaming someone else.