UK government introduces new laws on seafarer pay
The British government has announced new measures on the enforcement of the minimum wage for seafarers following P&O Ferries’ controversial decision to summarily sack 800 workers.
The transport secretary Grant Shapps has said that he will bring forward new legislation to ban ferries that don’t pay their workers the National Minimum Wage (NMW) from docking at British ports.
As a result, all ferry staff working in and out of British ports, and when in UK waters, will earn the NMW, closing a legal loophole between UK and international maritime law that P&O Ferries “ruthlessly exploited”.
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