800 P&O ferry staff were sacked over Zoom recently. The Government said it was told the night before but assumed a redundancy consultation was being announced. Three P&O ships were moored at Dover when the company suspended sailings ahead of a ‘major announcement’ but insisted it was ‘not going into liquidation’. Then the staff were sacked without warning, with the aim of replacing them with overseas agency staff from India on as little as £1.80 an hour - well below the UK's minimum wage. Frances O'Grady, head of the TUC, said the move was illegal and ‘one of the most shameful incidents in British industrial relations’. He called for them to have their jobs reinstated. The workers were 'forced to sign gagging orders in return for redundancy pay’.