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Shapps on P&O sackings: We will change the law

The government will stop companies from making staff redundant on the spot after P&O Ferries exploited “a loophole” in current legislation, the transport minister said.

Grant Shapps said there would be a “package of measures to ensure the situation is reversed” next week after the ferry company laid off 800 staff and then hired cheaper foreign workers.

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