The pair, who worked alternate weeks on the company’s cross-Channel routes out of Dover to share childcare of their son, are now considering their response being dismissed without notice on Thursday morning.
A couple dismissed by P&O after 31 years of combined service have described how they were marched off a ship “like criminals” when the company summarily sacked more than 800 workers.
The pair, who worked alternate weeks on the company’s cross-Channel routes out of Dover to share childcare of their son, are now considering their response to redundancy terms served without notice on Thursday morning.
Speaking to Sky News anonymously because the couple fear repercussions from P&O’s lawyers for commenting, the male partner said: “The way they came on board and locked us out of everything literally made us feel like criminals.
“Once we then got the announcement [of redundancy] everyone was devastated, and we were just told ‘go to your cabin, get your belongings and get off the ship, take an envelope on your way off’, and that was it.”
He said the dismissal left them unclear how they will pay their mortgage or support their son.
“Yesterday morning I woke up to a job, absolutely normal, this morning we’re completely unemployed.