Head of the Directorate of Labor Gissur Pétursson said 20 of the 29 foreign-born workers, who were in a bus accident in east Iceland on Sunday, are not legally registered in the country.

Pétursson also claimed that legally obligated tariffs had not been paid in relation to some of the workers’ salaries this year, Fréttabladid reports.

The workers in question are participating in the Kárahnjúkar dam project in the eastern highlands on behalf of the contractor company Arnarfell. They were hired through sub-contractors, the German company Hunnebeck Polska and the Icelandic companies GT-verktakar ehf. and Spöng ehf.

Pétursson said the workers who were not legally registered in the country may not be entitled to the health services they require after the accident.

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