Many foreign workers who were hurt or killed while working for Pentagon contractors on U.S. bases in Afghanistan most likely received little or none of the financial compensation required by the U.S. government.
. At their peak in 2012, they represented more than a third of the over 100,000 contract employees, according to the report, shared exclusively with NBC News.
Pentagon contractors are required by the Defense Base Act, made law in the 1940s, to buy insurance for employees to compensate them for debilitating injuries or pay their families if they are killed. But interviews with more than 200 workers suggest that payouts for those deaths and injuries didn’t happen or were inadequate, according to the report's authors, Noah Coburn and Peter Gill.
Since learning she had been shortchanged, Bahadur has sought legal help and is now asking a Department of Labor special court for fuller compensation. When contractors are found to have violated insurance requirements, there is little punishment, according to the report. “You just don’t have nefarious companies,” Coburn said. “You also have a government that allows these practices to continue.”
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