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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 320153" data-attributes="member: 33">Fair point but P&amp;O are likely to have thought they were more likely to get away with their actions when dealing with a favourable Tory Government than defending their actions under European law. The test is whether the Department of Transport will take out a prosecution against P&amp;O which is why I said &quot;Let&#039;s see the prosecutions and convictions&quot;. Our government is in bed with P&amp;O&#039;s parent country DP World with their Freeports scheme so P&amp;O might expect (and I suspect they will get) favourable treatment which they never could get if the case was taken to the European Court of Justice.EU Law doesn&#039;t ban zero hour contracts so it&#039;s not written on any paper, worthless or otherwise. This issue is like fire and rehire in that it is left to the individual countries to decide their policy on this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 320153, member: 33"] Fair point but P&O are likely to have thought they were more likely to get away with their actions when dealing with a favourable Tory Government than defending their actions under European law. The test is whether the Department of Transport will take out a prosecution against P&O which is why I said [I]"Let's see the prosecutions and convictions".[/I] Our government is in bed with P&O's parent country DP World with their Freeports scheme so P&O might expect (and I suspect they will get) favourable treatment which they never could get if the case was taken to the European Court of Justice. EU Law doesn't ban zero hour contracts so it's not written on any paper, worthless or otherwise. This issue is like fire and rehire in that it is left to the individual countries to decide their policy on this. [/QUOTE]

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