The only seafarer to turn down a payoff when P&O Ferries sacked more than 800 workers without notice has won a claim for unfair dismissal against the shipping giant.
John Lansdown, 40, a sous chef on cross-Channel routes who had worked for the company for 15 years, received an out-of-court settlement after the company accepted it had acted unfairly in firing him.
In the settlement the company admitted no consultation took place prior to Mr Lansdown's dismissal process, and that he was unfairly dismissed from his employment.
Mr Lansdown also received an undisclosed financial settlement which he has passed to seafarers' charity the Sailors' Children Society, which supports families across the UK.
P&O's admission ends a six-month legal battle begun by Mr Lansdown after he became the only one of hundreds of sacked seafarers not to accept a pay-off for sackings that blatantly ignored employment law.
P&O's actions caused widespread outrage, with political leaders on all sides and the Archbishop of Canterbury condemning the company's actions, which saw staff marched off ships, some without their belongings.
The company, owned by Dubai-based shipping giant DP World, replaced the largely British workforce with cheaper agency employees, many of them from overseas, paid less than the minimum wage thanks to a loophole in employment law.
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