P&O ferries suspending operations
Discussion
BBC news just reported that P&O ferries are suspending operations and have asked staff to disembark any passengers and cargo.
Staff should standby by for an important announcement about the future of the business.
Any ideas what this is about? I hadn’t heard any rumours of anything happening.
Staff should standby by for an important announcement about the future of the business.
Any ideas what this is about? I hadn’t heard any rumours of anything happening.
ks sake - am I living in some sort of alternate reality?
How odd.
If they aren’t going bust today, why ask all ships to return to port and offload passengers before they tell us what’s happening….
I can’t understand a scenario where this is needed before telling us what is going on.
It must be something that will induce mass panic and hysteria…..
I think it must be a zombie outbreak or some other end of world scenario….
If they aren’t going bust today, why ask all ships to return to port and offload passengers before they tell us what’s happening….
I can’t understand a scenario where this is needed before telling us what is going on.
It must be something that will induce mass panic and hysteria…..
I think it must be a zombie outbreak or some other end of world scenario….
They say they're not going into liquidation, and the announcement will 'secure the long-term viability of P&O Ferries'.
The ships have been ordered to stay alongside and cease operations - crew replacement with cheaper labour? AFAIK they've got rid of most of the British ratings, so possibly officers too now - they already have a very high amount on agency contracts and not permanent employment.
The ships have been ordered to stay alongside and cease operations - crew replacement with cheaper labour? AFAIK they've got rid of most of the British ratings, so possibly officers too now - they already have a very high amount on agency contracts and not permanent employment.
How do ships difffer from aircraft - I work in Aviation so think in terms of 'airworthiness' and this is what you do when you are going to revoke the 'airworthiness' of a jet, so its not stuck in limbo, as it were.
If the P&O airlines is having its air operators cert revoked (because they are going bust, or being shut down and re-setup as a new company for instance) you ground all the jets at your home bases, take the pax and crew off and THEN file the paperwork,to save them being stuck overseas or mid-air and not technically compliant.
Does this carry across? Is 'seaworthiness' a thing?
If the P&O airlines is having its air operators cert revoked (because they are going bust, or being shut down and re-setup as a new company for instance) you ground all the jets at your home bases, take the pax and crew off and THEN file the paperwork,to save them being stuck overseas or mid-air and not technically compliant.
Does this carry across? Is 'seaworthiness' a thing?
Firing all staff and replacing with cheaper labour?
https://twitter.com/benclatworthy/status/150440887...
https://twitter.com/benclatworthy/status/150440887...
snotrag said:
How do ships difffer from aircraft - I work in Aviation so think in terms of 'airworthiness' and this is what you do when you are going to revoke the 'airworthiness' of a jet, so its not stuck in limbo, as it were.
If the P&O airlines is having its air operators cert revoked (because they are going bust, or being shut down and re-setup as a new company for instance) you ground all the jets at your home bases, take the pax and crew off and THEN file the paperwork,to save them being stuck overseas or mid-air and not technically compliant.
Does this carry across? Is 'seaworthiness' a thing?
My thoughts were a change of name which then would be a change of insurance. If the P&O airlines is having its air operators cert revoked (because they are going bust, or being shut down and re-setup as a new company for instance) you ground all the jets at your home bases, take the pax and crew off and THEN file the paperwork,to save them being stuck overseas or mid-air and not technically compliant.
Does this carry across? Is 'seaworthiness' a thing?
"Well, now we've finished with Covid we can't have the lower classes cluttering up the continent can we? They did to start appreciating that if they want a holiday, they need to be planning for Blackpool, Margate or Cleethorpes rather than anywhere we want to go. The days of oiks going abroad, lowering the tone of the places we want to visit are now gone."
And yes I am joking.
Or am I.....
And yes I am joking.
Or am I.....
Puggit said:
Firing all staff and replacing with cheaper labour?
https://twitter.com/benclatworthy/status/150440887...
Can’t just arbitrarily fire all staff, can you?https://twitter.com/benclatworthy/status/150440887...
My employment law knowledge may be well out of date but there is a fairly proscriptive process to go through. This ain’t the US where fire and hire are a thing. Has there been anything bubbling under the surface over the last few months?
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