![]() ![]() They also had company documents stating the amount they were owed, and they conducted multiple follow-ups with Qatar’s labor courts as well as the company management. Three workers said they were owed thousands of US dollars each in end-of-service benefits by their employer, who had FIFA-related projects. Yet even workers Human Rights Watch interviewed who came forward to the government with evidence of wage theft have not received compensation from Qatari authorities. ![]() Al Marri said, “If there is a person entitled to compensation who has not received it, they should come forward and we will help them,” and claimed that Qatari authorities were ready to look at cases from more than a decade ago. For example, both Qatar’s Labor Minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri, at a November 14 European Parliament hearing, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino, on the eve of the tournament, on November 19, claimed that the Workers’ Support and Insurance Fund would take care of compensation. Neither Qatari authorities nor FIFA have provided remedy, including financial compensation, to migrant workers who faced serious abuses building the tournament infrastructure or to families of migrant workers whose deaths were unexplained.īefore the 2022 tournament, Qatari authorities and FIFA made grossly inaccurate and misleading claims that Qatar’s labor protection systems and compensation mechanisms were adequate to remedy these widespread abuses. Some workers told Human Rights Watch their employers prohibited them from changing jobs in anticipation of getting future projects, even when they were not paying or were severely underpaying workers for months. In many cases, workers were asked by employers to wait idly for new work, sometimes for months, without being paid. Interviewees said the post-World Cup Qatar labor market has experienced a significant slowdown, leading to major challenges for businesses, especially labor supply companies and construction subcontractors.įor migrant workers, this slowdown has resulted in wage theft, including unpaid salaries and denial of end-of -service benefits. Human Rights Watch spoke to two dozen Indian, Kenyan, and Nepali migrant workers who are either working in Qatar or have returned home in the last year, as well as managers from two labor supply companies, about labor conditions after the tournament. “But the evidence has once again exposed their misleading claims, which they shamelessly used to deflect criticism when the international spotlight was on Qatar.” “Qatari authorities and FIFA leaders have repeatedly claimed that existing systems and policies in Qatar protected migrant workers from wage theft and other widespread abuses,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. ![]() This highlights the inadequacies of Qatar’s labor reforms and the shameful human rights legacy of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Migrant workers who have remained in Qatar have not received compensation for past abuses and face escalating wage theft and new forms of exploitation. (Beirut) – Six months after the 2022 World Cup final in Doha, FIFA and Qatari authorities have failed to provide compensation for widespread abuses, including wage theft and unexplained deaths of migrant workers who prepared and delivered the tournament, Human Rights Watch said today. ![]()
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