Dubai’s Ministry of Labour is investigating claims made in a BBC report that construction workers working on the Jumeirah Golf Estates in the Emirate are being forced to live in inhumane conditions. The recent BBC investigation found a lack of clean water and raw sewage in one camp, which housed 7,500 labourers in 1,248 rooms. After the BBC report one of Jumeirah Golf Estates’ ambassadors, the English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has removed his name from the company’s website.
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