Construction firm ‘stealing from foreign workers’

MULTINATIONAL construction firm Gama was yesterday accused of stealing millions of euro from staff each month by underpaying hundreds of Turkish workers employed on numerous State projects.

As a Government report into allegations of migrant labour abuse was forwarded to Gama yesterday, Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins made a series of further sensational allegations in the Dáil.

Mr Higgins, who in February accused Gama of paying as little as €2 an hour, said in the Dáil that the firm was engaged in "criminal exploitation in the extreme".