Haro on unpaid wages on construction sites for the 2022 World Cup. According to Amnesty International, workers at the construction site of a stadium for the next World Cup in Qatar have not been paid for several months or only in part. It is not the first time that Doha has been criticized for the working conditions of this immigrant workforce.
Among them, a hundred workers from the company Qatar Meta Coats (QMC) working on the great Al-Bayt stadium, emblem of the local Bedouin culture with its tent-shaped architecture, did not receive wages over a period seven months, according to an Amnesty report released Wednesday. Some eventually received partial pay on June 7, the source said.
Problems known to the Ministry of Labor
In its report, the human rights NGO affirms that “the problems encountered by QMC workers have been well known to the Ministry of Labor of Qatar and the body responsible for organizing the country's soccer World Cup since almost a year. " And "the compensation did not start until after Amnesty revealed the results of its investigation".
Workers from Asia and Africa told the NGO that all of QMC's workforce on the Al-Bayt site, an enclosure that will accommodate 60,000 people, was concerned, i.e. hundred workers. "We ask them every day, but they tell us they are running out of money," one of the workers told Amnesty.
Social protection measures questioned
In a letter to the NGO, the Qatari organizers of the 2022 World Cup confirmed that they had been informed of the non-payment of salaries in July 2019. "Since then, we have been working to find a solution," they say. In financial difficulty, QMC was banned from working on World Cup projects and was sold to new owners, according to the organizers.
The Qatari authorities have taken many social protection measures to protect workers, but their effectiveness on the ground has been questioned by NGOs. Rare workers' strikes and the attention of the international media have led the wealthy gas state to intervene on several occasions, paying the wages itself and initiating proceedings against the offending companies.
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