Dive Brief:

• Eight contractors in Great Britain are offering as many as 3,200 workers compensation for having kept them on a secret blacklist that prevented their getting jobs.
• More than 40 companies contributed to the list that ran from the 1980s until 2009.
• The eight contractors that offered compensation apologized to affected workers, but they did not explain how the plan would work.

Dive Insight:

The existence of the blacklist came out when the secret agency that maintained it was shut down in 2009. The eight companies that made the compensation offer are Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinci.