Pressure on transport secretary to get tougher with rogue firm - after questions raised over his ‘block’ on redundancies
, chair of the transport committee, and Labour’s Darren Jones, the business committee chair, have demanded harsher action to:* Give ministers the power to take out an injunction against any firm copying P&O and refusing to consult staff on redundancies.– as a director because he is “not a fit and proper person to run a company that operates critical national infrastructure”.a deadline of next Monday to act on the firm’s “appalling” behaviour.
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