@BambinaJAS - Yes, as I have said up thread, P&O have broken the law. They failed to consult with staff as required by law. As I said in my post before the one on which you are commenting, their stated reason for not doing so is irrelevant. Staff can take action against P&O over the failure to consult and, if successful, would be awarded up to 90 days pay. However, if reports that they are being given well above the legal minimum in redundancy payments are correct, the ET may take the view that they have already been adequately compensated.
I have also said a few times that they may have broken the law on informing the government prior to large scale redundancies. We still don't know whether they have or not. They say they have not but, at the moment, we don't know for sure one way or the other. That depends on how many of the sacked staff were employed on UK-registered ships. I am also aware of a suggestion that, even if they haven't broken UK law on this, they may have broken the law in some of the countries where their ships are registered. Again, we don't yet know if this is true.
I have condemned P&O's behaviour several times on this thread as well.
In the post you highlight, I am simply pointing out that P&O dispute the £1.80/hour claim made by the unions and say they are actually paying £5.50-£6/hour. That is not taking sides, simply pointing out that we don't know how much the new staff are being paid. It may be £1.80/hour, it may be £6/hour, it may be somewhere between those figures. I state clearly that we don't know who is right about the rates for staff.