Balfour Beatty and Interserve accused of migrant worker labour abuses in Qatar
요약
보고된 날짜: 2016년 4월 13일
위치: 카타르
기업 페이지
Balfour Beatty - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 12
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 12 - 네팔 , 시공 , Gender not reported )토픽들
강제 노동 및 현대 노예제도 , 계약 대체 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 신분증 압류 , 폭력 , 위협 , 임금 착취결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
시행된 조치: 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.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2016년 4월 13일
위치: 카타르
기업 페이지
Interserve - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 12 - 네팔 , 시공 , Gender not reported )토픽들
직업소개수수료 , 신분증 압류 , 폭력 , 위협 , 강제 노동 및 현대 노예제도 , 계약 대체 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 임금 착취결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: 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.
출처: 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.