Qatar’s World Cup organizers accused of not paying migrant workers
Human rights organization Amnesty International said roughly 100 employees of a Qatari subcontractor went up to seven months without receiving salaries.
A group of migrant workers building the 2022 World Cup stadium in Qatar worked for as many as seven months without pay, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
The rights group said roughly 100 employees of subcontractor Qatar Meta Coats are still waiting to be paid for their work on Al Bayt Stadium. The workers experiencing salary delays included nationals of Ghana, Kenya, Nepal and the Philippines, Amnesty International said.
After Amnesty International took the allegation to the Qatari authorities, World Cup organizers and football's governing body, FIFA, the organization reports that some employees have since received part of their withheld wages.
“This case is the latest damning illustration of how easy it still is to exploit workers in Qatar, even when they are building one of the crown jewels of the World Cup. For years we have been urging Qatar to reform the system, but clearly change has not come fast enough,” Steve Cockburn, head of Economic and Social Justice at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
