UK construction firms defend working practices in response to claims of reduced wages and withholding labourers’ passportsBalfour Beatty and Interserve,two of the UK’s largest construction companies, beget 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.
Labourers on construction sites operated by BK Gulf, or co-owned by Balfour Beatty,and Gulf Contracting Company (GCC), co-owned by Interserve, and allege that they beget been exploited and mistreated by labour supply companies hired by the firms to furnish construction sites in Doha with cheap manual workers.
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Source: theguardian.com