9 minutes agoWorld Cup: KATAR organisers 2022 charged with blowing up workers
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The organisers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar once again are part of the major criticism from an Amnesty International investigation that revealed that about 100 immigrant workers in one of the stadiums of this tournament had not been paid for seven months, despite the authorities having known this problem from summer [...]
The human rights organisation said that the amount owed to workers and staff to the Qatar Meta Coats company, a construction and design company contracted to work at the stadium at 60 thousand Al Bayt seats, amounted to about 2,000 euros and up to 15 thousand.
Some workers have already begun to take part in the debt after Amnesty International raised the issue to Qatar authorities Fifa and World Cup organisers this week, writes The Guardian, the Periscope.
However, no worker has yet fully received the wages they owe.
This case is an illustration showing how easy it is to detonate workers in Qatar, even if they are building one of the best stadiums for the World Cup,” said the head of AI's social and economic justice, Steve Cookburn.
For years we've been calling on Qatar to reform the system, but clearly change is not happening fast enough. We don't have to make an investigation so that workers are paid for what they work for. ” /Periscope
