The head of the Dubai-based group that owns P&O Ferries has insisted it is too late to reverse the decision to sack 800 sailors, as he praised its management for doing an “amazing job” in restructuring the UK company.
Speaking to the Financial Times on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the chair and chief executive of DP World, expressed irritation at the way the UK government turned on P&O after the company announced in March that it would dismiss 800 workers without consultation.
Sulayem said the decision was taken by the P&O board without input from its Dubai parent, and the move could not be reversed.
“We said many times, [the UK government] can’t do anything now because [the P&O decision] is in the past,” he said, stressing the company’s defence that its two available options were to switch to a cheaper workforce or cease operating.
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