In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case a worker from Uganda (p12) told Amnesty: "There are very many who want to change job, but they failed. The method was they got a message saying 'rejected'. About 100 could apply but they only approve five or so. The company can then maybe mistreat them psychologically. [The company] get told [by MADLSA] that “so and so is trying to change” and then they harass people."
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p22) a worker (Musa) told Amnesty that after handing in a resignation letter and being approved for transfer by MADLSA, Musa’s employer immediately stopped him from working for three weeks during his notice period. Musa said he should nonetheless have been paid his basic salary. Instead, the company deducted this amount from the end-of-service benefits he was entitled to. When Musa declined the company’s offer to change his working location in exchange for rescinding his resignation, just two days before the end of his notice period his employer cancelled his residence permit. Musa resigned himself to being sent home and having to return to Qatar on a new visa. However, the company had other ideas. In mid-September, Musa discovered his employer had also filed an absconding charge against him, even though he was still living in their accommodation. He told Amnesty International:“I want them to drop the case so I can stay in Qatar to support my family and my brother who is very sick. I haven't been earning for months. I sold my land. I need compensation.”
其他
Not Reported (
行业未知/不适用
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
1
外劳和移民工人: (
数字未知
- 地点未知
- 未知行业
, 未报告性别
)
议题
恐吓和威胁
,
Failing to renew visas
,
Restricted mobility
,
Wage Theft
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p19) "Aisha" arrived in Qatar in August 2019. Having been promised a job in the hospitality sector, she found herself working in a small labour supply company where she would move constantly from one location to another and was paid just QR1,300 (US$360) each month, instead of the promised QR1,600 (US$440). She told Amnesty International she suffered salary delays and cuts by her employer, shared a room with 12 people in what she describes as “overcrowded accommodation” and was never paid her end-of-service benefits. After her contract she requested to change jobs but her employer became “very upset and became angry and threatening”. He told her if she wants to move job she will need to pay QR6,000 (US$1,650) for an NOC or else he would send her back home. According to Aisha, at least 10 of her colleagues agreed to pay for their NOC and have since managed to move employers.
恐吓和威胁
,
Failing to renew visas
,
Contract Substitution
,
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions
,
Restricted mobility
,
Poverty Wages
,
Wage Theft
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p15) a worker a worker said that he had been prevented from changing jobs from a security company to a driving job. He said: "I was not able to change jobs because yes you look for a job and they give you an offer letter, but you have to take that to your company to sign to give you permission to move. But our company was not [signing] this. We tried to go to the Ministry of Labour to say ‘our company won't let us change’ and the Ministry just said ‘come another day’... What happened? I don't understand. The government has passed the law, but the companies don't want to release you.”
其他
Not Reported (
安保公司
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
数字未知
外劳和移民工人: (
数字未知
- 地点未知
, 安保公司
, 未报告性别
)
议题
Restricted mobility
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p10) a worker reported paying US$1,200 to a recruitment agent in his home country to get his job in Qatar.
其他
Not Reported (
行业未知/不适用
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
数字未知
外劳和移民工人: (
数字未知
- 地点未知
- 未知行业
, 未报告性别
)
议题
招聘费
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p8) a worker said that employers are still requiring an NOC and that her current employer would not provide one and had threatened to send her back to the Philippines.
恐吓和威胁
,
Failing to renew visas
,
Restricted mobility
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p15) a worker described all the steps an employer will go to frustrate a request to change jobs. He said: “Sometimes the papers get 'lost' and you wait for months. If you are working eight hours and can find jobs, they make you work 12 hours, or they take you very far into the desert so you cannot apply to jobs."
其他
Not Reported (
行业未知/不适用
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
数字未知
外劳和移民工人: (
数字未知
- 地点未知
- 未知行业
, 未报告性别
)
议题
Restricted mobility
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p18) a Filipino worker told Amnesty International that despite having worked for her employer for close to five years and receiving a job offer, her employer demanded QR15,000 for an NOC or “permission” to leave. She was so afraid of her sponsor cancelling her ID and sending her back to her home country without paying her the end-of-service gratuity she was due, that she did not submit the transfer request.
其他
Not Reported (
行业未知/不适用
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
1
外劳和移民工人: (
1
- 菲律宾
- 未知行业
, 未报告性别
)
议题
Restricted mobility
,
Failing to renew visas
,
恐吓和威胁
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case a worker from Kenya (p12) told Amnesty of the trouble he was having changing jobs and that he thought it was being blocked by his employer. He said" "Now it's past more than six months still waiting for the message without knowing, maybe the sponsor of the company has blocked the transfer. These people never want to make things easier for any non-citizens."
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p15) a worker described how an employer blocked his request to change jobs. He said: “I wanted to change jobs and I passed the interview, and they gave me an offer letter. The [new company] wanted a [signed] resignation letter so I went to the [current company’s] office three different days and they just made drama and refused to give me the resignation letter. It was January 2021, after the new law. I got tired so I just left the [new] job [and remained in the current company].”
其他
Not Reported (
行业未知/不适用
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
数字未知
外劳和移民工人: (
数字未知
- 地点未知
- 未知行业
, 未报告性别
)
议题
Restricted mobility
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case (p22) a worker (Wilson) told Amnesty: “The salary is very small. The work is hard. We are working outside in this harsh climate... I was telling the General Manager, ‘I’ve got my kid, my family’. I was getting very little, QR900 (US $247). And there was an opportunity to change but they could not release me.” When he tried again it was also refused under the new system and then his employer cancelled his visa."
其他
Not Reported (
行业未知/不适用
)
- Employer
受影响的
受影响的总人数:
1
外劳和移民工人: (
1
- 地点未知
, 园艺和景观美化
, 未报告性别
)
议题
Poverty Wages
,
Failing to renew visas
,
Restricted mobility
,
剥夺迁徙自由
回应
回应纪录: 否
后续行动: None reported.
信息来源: NGO
摘要
日期: 2021年11月16日
地点:
卡塔尔
In November 2021 Amnesty brought out their "Reality Check" report on the state of migrant workers' rights in Qatar. In this case a worker from Kenya (p14) told Amnesty of the trouble he was having changing jobs. He said: "Those things [about the job transfer process] they just say they are working but the truth is you might get a confirmation message that you have [been approved] but when the Ministry revisits your message back in the system, they cancel [because of the relationships] that the Ministry of Labour has with the companies. And for it to work out you might spend even a year following up and at the end they deny you.”
The final countdown to football’s next World Cup in November 2022 has started. But despite introducing important legal reforms, Qatar has still not delivered on its promise to end labour abuses and exploitation of its more than two million migrant workers. This report demonstrates that the past year has seen an actual erosion of newly protected migrant workers’ rights, with old abusive practices resurfacing, reviving the worst elements of the kafala sponsorship system and undermining reforms. The government has failed to rigorously implement the changes, throwing into doubt the pledge by key stakeholders that the World Cup would be a game changer for migrant workers in Qatar.