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4 مارس 2022

الكاتب:
Adele Ferguson, Age (Australia)

‘It’s gone on too long’: CIMIC scrambles to refund workers caught up in underpayment scandal

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Australia’s largest construction company CIMIC and its Middle East affiliate have engaged lawyers to help deal with hundreds of underpayment claims from workers, subcontractors and local banks in a scandal that has left some victims struggling to survive.

Employees in Dubai, who have taken the Middle East business to court, have been contacted by a law firm to sign release deeds to get their money, while hundreds of others in labour camps in Qatar are still waiting.

Michael Albrecht, an Australian expat who worked for CIMIC affiliated companies for 17 years, and who has been waiting almost a year to be paid overdue wages and accrued end of service entitlements, said he was contacted in the past 24 hours by a law firm to settle his claim.

A joint investigation with The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and ABC’s 7.30revealed on Wednesday that a brutal exit from the Middle East had left workers stranded and some subcontractors struggling to survive.

New claims have now emerged that when CIMIC announced its withdrawal from the Middle East in February 2021, selling its 45 per cent stake to SALD, 12 local banks were owed hundreds of millions of dollars - an amount that could blow out if existing projects aren’t successfully completed.

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