Under Scrutiny Over Labor Record, Abu Dhabi To Relocate Workers - Middle East Real Time - WSJ:
"Abu Dhabi is planning to move 80,000 low-wage workers from an industrial area outside the city center into new “labor cities”, an apparent response to reports about exploitative labor practices and poor living conditions for people working on some of the U.A.E. capital’s biggest construction projects.
The plan announced Sunday comes two weeks after the U.K.’s The Observer newspaper reported that thousands of workers helping develop Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island into a cultural destination had their passports confiscated by employers and were living in unsanitary conditions.
While criticism of labor practices in the Gulf is nothing new, the scrutiny comes at a sensitive time for Abu Dhabi and other locales projecting themselves on the world stage by hosting international events and seeking economic diversification through tourism."
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