18 months of non-payment, Qatari company leaves workers in the lurch
About 550 employees of a once successful Qatari company – Imperial Trading and Contracting Company (ITCC) – have been protesting non-payment of wages for over 11 months, which has pushed them and their families back home to destitution...
ITCC worked on several high profile projects...
Migrant-Rights.org spoke to several affected employees, all of whom say they have exhausted every avenue available to file complaints, none of which yielded any results. This is not the first time that such protests were held.... In June 2019, a few hundred workers protested outside of ITCC’s offices because they had not been paid for six months...
Salary payments stopped again from November 2019...
The company has made it clear employees can go back to work and their payments would be made in instalments, or they can give up their claims and seek a job elsewhere or return home. Most of their Qatar IDs (QID) have expired, and in order to change jobs, they will still need the company to reactivate it