Balfour Beatty and Interserve accused of migrant worker labour abuses in Qatar
要約
Date Reported: 2016年4月13日
場所: カタール
企業
Balfour Beatty - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: 12
移住者・移民労働者: ( 12 - ネパール , 建設 , Gender not reported )課題
強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , Contract Substitution , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 身分証明書の取り上げ , 殴打及び暴力 , 威嚇及び脅迫 , Wage Theft回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
取られた措置: An organizer of a strike action to demand salaries was apparently sent home, while the company refused to pay his bonus or leave allowance, and cover the costs of his air ticket home. Media focus on the abuse claims led to Balfour Beatty (co-owner of BK Gulf) undertaking an investigation into their supply chains. Following the review BK Gulf terminated its contract with the labour supplier who was not meeting Balfour Beatty's labour standards. BK Gulf issued a statement in response to the allegations; Balfour Beatty also responded.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
要約
Date Reported: 2016年4月13日
場所: カタール
企業
Interserve - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( 12 - ネパール , 建設 , Gender not reported )課題
採用費 , 身分証明書の取り上げ , 殴打及び暴力 , 威嚇及び脅迫 , 強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , Contract Substitution , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
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取られた措置: An organizer of a strike action to demand salaries was apparently sent home, while the company refused to pay his bonus or leave allowance, and cover the costs of his air ticket home. An organizer of a strike action to demand salaries was apparently sent home, while the company refused to pay his bonus or leave allowance, and cover the costs of his air ticket home. Interserve provided a statement to the Guardian, committing to investigation.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
Balfour Beatty and Interserve, two of the UK’s largest construction companies, have been accused of a raft of labour abuses by migrant workers employed on large-scale projects operated by companies that the firms co-own in Qatar. The Guardian spoke to more than a dozen migrant workers, all of whom requested to remain anonymous due to fears of losing their jobs.
Labourers on construction sites operated by BK Gulf, co-owned by Balfour Beatty, and Gulf Contracting Company (GCC), co-owned by Interserve, allege that they have been exploited and mistreated by labour supply companies hired by the firms...The alleged abuses include erratic or reduced payment of wages, passport confiscation, workers entering employment with high levels of debt bondage, and pay levels below those agreed when workers were recruited in their home countries…a culture of fear and intimidation, with threats of arrest or deportation...[the companies] said they were working within the parameters of Qatari law and rigorously monitored their labour supply companies to ensure good practice...[and] denied that they retained passports as a way of restricting workers’ movements.