Eye-watering payouts to DP World bosses an insult to common decency

Commenting on P&O Ferries owner DP World paying $18.9 million to bosses last year after the illegal mass sacking of hundreds of seafarers, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said:

“DP World has been allowed to get away scot-free despite behaving like corporate gangsters.

“These eye-watering payouts for bosses come off the back of P&O Ferries illegally sacking hundreds of dedicated staff. They are an insult to common decency.

“Ministers should have stripped DP World of all their lucrative public contracts and severed all commercial ties with the company.

“And they should have strengthened the law to make sure another P&O Ferries scandal is never allowed to happen again.

“But one year on – they have only made it easier for rogue employers to act with impunity.

“Instead of attacking the right to strike and threatening hard-won workers’ rights, ministers should get on with boosting worker protections.

“Without stronger protections for workers, there is nothing stopping another P&O Ferries scandal from happening again.”