The Meyer Turku shipyard has announced that it has terminated contracts with two Estonian companies that were allegedly involved in the exploitation of Ukrainian workers.
The shipyard's communications chief, Anna Hakala, confirmed that the decisions to end the contracts were made last week, according to news agency STT.
Hakala told STT that employees of the Estonian firms Bongo Marine and Hodek no longer have access rights to the shipyard.
Reports about the exploitation of Ukrainian workers at the Estonian firms surfaced at the end of September.
STT reported at the time that the Ukrainians were pressured to work weekend and night shifts, as well as being compelled to work shifts for up to 14 hours. The news agency found that workers had also not received overtime pay they were due.
In early October, STT reported that a network of shady Estonian companies involved in the exploitation of Ukrainian shipyard workers had also operated at the Rauma shipyard.
The Meyer Turku shipyard is known as the manufacturer of the world's biggest cruise liners.
