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UCATT anger over foreign worker pay on Scottish Parliament building
12:39 13 Jun 2003
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UCATT has today (Friday) accused the people in charge of creating
the new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh of exploiting
foreign workers on site.
The construction union claims that workers are only receiving a rate of pay equivalent to the national minimum wage and that language problems are increasing the health and safety risks on site.
And UK workers fear that they may lose their jobs if they are paid off to make way for lower cost labour from overseas.
UCATT has also expressed concern that the Belfast-based specialist contracting company Mivan, which finds the men work, refused to disclose the Romanian workers' employment conditions.
Alan Ritchie, the union's Scottish regional secretary said that when questioned, contractor Bovis Landlease said it did not use Mivan, and that the agency was paid directly by the client, the Scottish Executive.
Mivan refused to discuss the workers' pay and conditions claiming it would be in breach of the Data Protection Act.
The construction union claims that workers are only receiving a rate of pay equivalent to the national minimum wage and that language problems are increasing the health and safety risks on site.
And UK workers fear that they may lose their jobs if they are paid off to make way for lower cost labour from overseas.
UCATT has also expressed concern that the Belfast-based specialist contracting company Mivan, which finds the men work, refused to disclose the Romanian workers' employment conditions.
Alan Ritchie, the union's Scottish regional secretary said that when questioned, contractor Bovis Landlease said it did not use Mivan, and that the agency was paid directly by the client, the Scottish Executive.
Mivan refused to discuss the workers' pay and conditions claiming it would be in breach of the Data Protection Act.
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