31 Aug 2026
Failure to Protect: Abuses in G4S Sub-Saharan Security Operations
Summary
Date Reported: 31 Aug 2026
Location: Uganda
Companies
G4S - EmployerOther
Not Reported ( Mining ) - BuyerAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Workers: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , Security companies , Men ) , Workers: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , Security companies , Women )Issues
Wage Theft , Living Wage , Intimidation , Occupational Health & Safety , Pregnancy discrimination , Sexual orientation & gender identity discrimination , Freedom of Association , Freedom of Assembly , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Right to Food , Sexual harassment , Harassment (other than sexual) , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure TimeResponse
Response sought: Yes, by BHRC
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: In a response to the BHRC, the company outlined its commitment to human rights and the commission of an independent review into the allegations.
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 31 Aug 2026
Location: South Africa
Companies
G4S - EmployerOther
Not Reported ( Mining ) - SiteAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Workers: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , Security companies , Gender not reported )Issues
Living Wage , Wage Theft , Recruitment Fees , Occupational Health & Safety , Illness , Intimidation , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Freedom of Association , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Access to electricity , Access to Water , Heat exposure , ViolenceResponse
Response sought: Yes, by BHRC
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: In a response to the BHRC, the company outlined its commitment to human rights and the commission of an independent review into the allegations.
Source type: NGO
Summary
Date Reported: 31 Aug 2026
Location: Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Companies
G4S - EmployerOther
Not Reported ( Mining ) - SiteAffected
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Workers: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , Security companies , Gender not reported )Issues
Wage Theft , Minimum Wage , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Mental Health , Occupational Health & Safety , Personal Health , Illness , Intimidation , Freedom of Association , Heat exposure , Restricted access to medicines , Access to Information , Access to Water , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyResponse
Response sought: Yes, by BHRC
Story containing response: (Find out more)
Action taken: In a response to the BHRC, the company outlined its commitment to human rights and the commission of an independent review into the allegations.
Source type: NGO
Security guards employed by G4S, the international arm of Allied Universal, described poverty wages, unpaid overtime and, in some cases, sexual harassment, according to a report published today by UNI Global Union, a global trade union federation.
The report, based on interviews with current and former G4S employees across South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, said guards described being pressured to work shifts of up to 36 hours without additional pay, and that some had borrowed money from informal lenders to cover living costs.