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Following the P&O Ferries scandal which took place earlier this year, a move in the UK is to ensure that minimum wage for all seafarers has taken a step closer to becoming law.

As ITV News reports, reforms aim to ensure workers on ships regularly calling at UK ports are paid the equivalent of the national minimum wage.

The operator P&O Ferries was widely condemned on both sides of the Irish Sea after sacking nearly 800 staff members with immediate effect in March and replacing them with cheaper agency staff.

The company admitted that it broke the law by not consulting trade unions before firing crew and staff members- causing former union boss and Labour peer Lord Woodley to brand them "law-breaking profiteers".

A proposed law is now being pushed through the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to prevent a repeat of such "unacceptable behaviour".

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Wave Regatta provides Howth Yacht Club and the community on the Howth peninsula in County Dublin with a biennial keelboat racing event that aims to be the most attractive sailing event in Ireland.

Maximising many of the local natural resources and involving allied Howth businesses and services, it attracted competitors, visitors and others on its first staging in 2018 with a weekend-long spectacle establishing Howth as a destination of choice for sailors, visitors and allied marine tourism.

Read Afloat's preview and review of the first staging of Wave Regatta.

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Howth Yacht Club's 2022 WAVE Regatta will be sailed from May 24th to 26th 2024

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