THIS piece of garbage is excatly why we need unions.

£2.86 an hour from a big company in 2024 is psychopathic.

Half a million a year for the ceo £2.86 an hour for the workers. This morally corrupt man should be jailed

He's previously sacked workers in what he admitted was an illegal manner ... now he's been found out that he's lied to Parliament ... he needs to GO TO JAIL, don't pass go, don't collect any Salary !

DO NOT USE P&O FERRIES! This is absolutely scandalous that these bastards pay this money. This CEO was paid £508,000 last year!

*If a business can't exist without underpaying its workers, it doesn't deserve to exist.*

I'm so sick of these committee's, just MP's pretending to do their job and criminals like him walk out free.

P&O used to have many UK workers who under employment law were entitled to UK minimum wage. P&O ferry boss said the company was not sustainable in the current climate due to being heavily affected by the restrictions of covid. So, according to the P&O boss he broke UK employment law and sacked every single UK employee on the day without any notice or consultation period which is required by law. What is worse the man admitted that he broke UK law and was very brazen about it. He then goes employs agency staff under what is known as international wages, wages that are not regulated by any country BUT is a set amount which any company operating internationally such as ferries, container ships, cargo ships and airlines. The problem with international wages is that they are extremely low which is a loop hole that the P&O boss has used to get cheap labour. What he did is a disgrace and the company should be boycotted but what is worse still is that the UK public do not care because thousands of them are still using P&O for their holiday cruises.

£600 million in profits for half a year and they pay their staff nothing. Disgraceful.

Sounds like P&O did exactly what everybody knew they wanted to do. And the UK government allowed it. And the French government is not going to allow it.

A masterclass in lying from P&O !!!

I will certainly avoid using P&O ferries in the future and spread the truth about this shameful and sad Company Thank goodness this video was posted Well done 👍🏻 😮

That P&O boss is what a pig in human form looks like. Thief in suit

I think it’s “important” that this criminal is locked up!

This man is clearly untrustworthy.

This fellow has all the qualities required by the Post Office for their senior management team.

Boycott them.

He's proud of the fact that he claims to have been paying £5.15 per hour! So generous!!!! Tax the scumbags!!!!

There needs to be a world wide boycott to P&O including any other company not paying a real living wage.

His eyes are empty. A human means nothing to him.

This is pointless. They sit and embarrass whoever is on trial. But nothing changes........

I'm so sick of these heartless, greedy, profiteering monsters.

WATCH THIS VIDEO IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. This man has no morals whatsoever the only thing he is interested in is making as much money £££££ as he can at what cost does not come into the equation, he treats his crews like porns and will treat them as he sees fit whenever it suits as this video shows , when P&O was manned by English Crew it was the same fully trained crew week in week out, as for the Officers that was also supposed to have been made redundant with the ratings 2 years ago they got a bonus but also kept their jobs. This man cannot be trusted if possible please use another ferry company but not P&O please boycott using them.

Doesn't look like he gets paid under the minimum wage! It's pure corporate greed! And he is trying to justify it with figures!

Profiting from misery and misleading the committee... perfectly legal :|

The fact that he said so self-convincingly that he paid five pounds per hour as if it is anything more then pocket change. Utterly despicable.

This miserable excuse of a human being is the reason why workers are going back to Edwardian times. This crook should be in jail for exploitation.

And this is why I will NEVER use P&O ever again

Psychopathy gets you to the top of Business these days. Shame and guilt is alien to this piece of greedy sht.

Horrible, disgusting company that everybody needs to avoid

What an utter scumbag he should be made to pay all his employees back pay😡

"our safety record has increased by 66%" What a completely nonsensical statement.

Am I wrong, I thought Britain had outlawed slavery?

These are slavery wages

seems the barrels are full of rotten APPLES i will never book a p & o ferry again

I would happily boycott P&O as this is shameful, but how much do DFDS and Irish Ferries, etc. pay their staff?

Why is this guy not in prison? He not only broke the law. He did so purposefully, willfully, and confessed openly to his crime. The fact he will walk out of this meeting a free man is an insult to every working person.

He almost boasts about the £5.20 😂 Disgusting.

Would he work for £2 an hour! Anti slavery, should be absolutely slammed by the government!!

aided and abetted by HM government, lets face it despite the hot air when P&O sacked the UK crews not one measure was taken by the Tory government in support of the sailors against P&O

Disgraceful. These companies deserve to go bust.

They should be jailed.

"We didn't sack anybody!" Jeez. What planet is this guy on?

Well all I can say is anyone using P&O should thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Excuse after excuse after excuse.

Just don't allow them into port in the UK.

Who'd have thought that P&O really stood for Piracy & Oppression! 🤔

Can you imagine this Guy having a beer in the pub at the next table.

Just another example that if you don't regulate companies, they will take the piss. If a company can't be run privately without slavery, then it shouldn't exist.

A prime example of a company that shouldn't be in business. Their business model is dependent on paying poverty wages. I wonder how much money P&O donate to the Conservative party.?

Normal rate- + overtime - + holiday pay -- £5 . Tremendous if you can pick up your wages in a time machine.

What a disgrace. Guy should be utterly ashamed of himself.

Deflection from the first words out of his mouth. Despicable toad.

Remember when the UK minimum wage was implemented by Tony Blair the tories voted against it every step of the way. This is how the big uk businesses would behave without that safeguard - it was one of the most important steps ever for working class people.

should be locked up, disgraceful !!

Vile individual. Obfuscating and excuse making for his greed and utter ineptitude.

Jail Him

Our government have allowed them to get away with this. 🙈

£2.86! He didn't realise it was that much. He'll get right onto that as soon as he gets back to the office. 😂

He is so uncomfortable during this grilling. I like it.

Would he work for less than £3 per hour and even if the pay £5.15 that is still disgusting

There are no words in the english language that can adequately describe the deprivation of this man.

This man is very very greedy how can anyone live on that hourly rate he really is a very very very nasty employer.

If they are acting unlawfully, then they should be prosecuted.Way is it so hard to processes this simple fact

He's a criminal, nothing more

This man is a monster

Pay him that rate and see what he says!

No wonder people can't pay their bills. And yet he seems proud. Appalling.

this man is pure evil

I will walk a long way to boycott this absolute horror show.

Ok, mildly glib comment a while ago, I've listned to the whole interview now. I will never use P&O ferries again in my life and I hope Hebblethwaite winds up destitute. I know he won't, but it's a cheerful thought to end the night on - if you're coming along for the ride, I'm picturing a salvaged festival tent from Glastonbury, a broken thermos-flask and a cheese sandwich somewhere in the Forest of Dean.

He must have some huge secrets against his bosses to be able to keep his job... Hebblethwaite is such a huge crook and one of the most immoral characters ever.

They're actually in French and British waters and their competitors on the Dover-Calais route already pay way more than P&O.

It is so self evident that this has been rehearsed many times. He clearly has so much to hide and was terrified of an ad hoc slip up, his lawyers will have scripted ALL responses and ensured he only answered with the exact words prepared.

In other words… we have been able to get away with paying next to nothing and take huge bonuses for ages so we are happy to pay our staff peanuts

I would not feel safe on a P and O ferry. If they can treat people like this I will safely assume that they do not care about their passenger safety either.

People should really boycott them

Eyes of a sociopath

Sorry! I can't hold my silence on this. How can the UK government permit this travesty of basic human rights, and I emphasise "basic", to exist? This guy giving evidence is quite obviously a "crook", in that he is no different than the usual scammer, ripping off people who need to work legitimately but can't command good wages! There should be some recourse for legimate claimants (not illegal immigrants) against this injustice to prosecute this type of "Mafia" boss and get him sent to prison for years. If it takes a change in government to realise this, then so be it, as much as it pains me to admit it!

Revoke P&O UK Mooring Rights until they pay minimum wage.

We have no problem recruiting workers, there are millions of desperate people we can exploit,I thought exploitation was illegal.

That's absolutely shocking. No one can live on that.

He shouldn’t have been allowed to keep saying consolidated when holidays are included. He is taking the holiday pay and spreading it across the the worked pay thus making the holidays unpaid. I suspect he has done the same with the overtime. Work an extra four hours on your 8 hour shift and we will pay you for those hours meaning you’ve earned 50% more on your 8 hour shift hourly rate.

I will never use p&o!

He seems to be proud of the rate P&O are paying!!! Absolutely shocking!!

G’day from Brisbane Queensland Australia. Bring that P&O thief over here to Australia and let him try that in front a Federal Senate enquiry. And he would be told answer the questions correctly or you could face major fines of up to $100000.00 and or serious Gaol time of not less than one year. What a grub this person is to treat his employees with such disdain, he hasn’t the balls to take on the mighty CFMMEU and the Maritime Union of Australia division. P&O and the Liberal Conservative has been taught a very hard lesson do not try that international shit here or you will suffer the consequences for your actions and misdeeds against any worker. The Questioner should be asking this dill how he and P&O fairs in Australia with this sort of attitude to workers.

Don't let them in the UK waters unless they agree to pay min wages.

We would never use this despicable company under any circumstances. He could be a politician given how he spins things to suit his needs.

And this is wht leaving human rights will do in uk

"... because exchange rates move about" 😂

He earns 2000 pounds a day and pays staff 20 pound for 8 hours. 5 days a week times 50 weeks a year.

Geez even I was paid £4.80 by House of Fraser back in 2003

This guy's a shoe in for running the Post Office......😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

That's what the tories want anyway

Never use PO ferries.

These workers are well paid compared to the standards of the countries that they come from, why can’t people understand that.

6:52 made me laugh. Do you think you could live on £4.87 an hour? and he says "No"!

Look at his first answer on safety record, that's barely a human response. The international standards are horrific so we pay slightly more than that

He says they operate in international waters......... Just ban them from docking in British ports!

so the hourly page only goes up to £5.12 or whatever it is because the calculate the paid holiday into it?

''So, 'Yes'.....in response to the commitees question....We are operating offshore slavery'' 💩