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Article

12 Feb 2014

Author:
Owen Gibson, Footytube

Qatar introduces higher standards for welfare of World Cup migrant workers

The organising committee for the Qatar 2022 World Cup has promised that contractors who build its stadiums will be held to high standards on the welfare of migrant workers, in the wake of trenchant and sustained criticism. But the promises, made in the wake of demands for a progress update from Fifa, do not deal with wider concerns about workers engaged in the £137bn construction boom underpinning World Cup infrastructure... Qatari authorities have been heavily criticised by human rights groups and trade unions in the wake of a Guardian investigation that revealed the scale of the abuse of migrant workers from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and elsewhere who are the backbone of the World Cup construction and the country's wider "Qatar Vision 2030" building project...The fresh commitments have been published in a 50-page document that sets out detailed standards on payment of wages, accommodation and welfare and promises to introduce a tough new inspection regime. It says that it addresses "some of the most critical concerns highlighted in recent reports about working and living conditions of workers in Qatar's construction centre".