Saqr Gobash, the United Arab Emirates Minister for Labour, has promised to review and act upon the labor rights allegations made in a BBC documentary.

The documentary, "Slumdogs and Millionaires", produced by the BBC's Panorama current affairs program, investigated living conditions experienced by Asian construction workers in Dubai.

Gobash has promised to check the veracity of the claims made in the program against Arabtec and United Engineering Construction, a subcontractor of First Group, and to sanction any company found to have breached the country's labor laws and international labor commitments.

Separately, the ministry has announced a range of initiatives to improve worker conditions in the country, including the issue of a booklet informing workers of their rights under Emirates law.