BUSINESS EXTRA

Scot-free

P&O Ferries believe that the possibility of a fine arising from the 2022 mass sacking of 786 em‐ployees was “remote.”

The Dubai ‐ owned ferry operator’s annual report maintained that sacking its entire UK‐based crew without the prior consul‐tation required by UK law was a “solution to gaining essential opera‐tional flexibility.

Good result

BARCELONA‐BASED con‐struction company FCC, controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, earned €97 million in the first three months of this year, 14 per cent more than 2021’s first quarter. Revenue increased by 21.2 per cent to €2.03 billion thanks to in ‐creased activity and dou‐ble‐digit growth in most business areas.