Workers from Bangladesh, India and Nepal are telling of essential food prices doubling with the sealing of the Saudi border and closure of air and sea links to Qatar. Food deliveries by costly air freight from Iran and Turkey are pushing up prices, while the availability of materials for the huge World Cup infrastructure programme...is also in question. Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said..."[T]he brunt of the crisis is already being felt by impoverished migrants who have no rights under the kafala system. Probable delays in construction projects are likely to add further pressure on the huge migrant workforce, in a country where they have no real recourse to justice. Those who want to leave the country have to get their employer’s permission, and many workers are still paying off debts to recruitment agents who arranged their passage to Qatar. The Qatar government should...remove the kafala exit-permit requirement so that those who want to return home are not trapped in Qatar.” Multinational companies doing business in Qatar must also take responsibility for the workers in their supply chains...The immediate needs of these workers need to be taken care of, and contracts and promises of wages must be fulfilled...Construction companies in Qatar should ensure that any delays to infrastructure projects do not lead to lay-offs or wage cuts.