Labour rights organisation Equidem has found construction companies are consistently dodging inspections introduced to improve working conditions.abc.net.au/news/fifa-world-cup-qatar-and-human-rights/101624010A company owned by Qatar's royal family has been accused of enforcing some of the "worst conditions" for migrant workers constructing FIFA World Cup stadiums and hiding mistreatment from the football authority's inspectors.
Migrant workers have died, faced discrimination, wage theft, and dangerously unsafe working conditions while building infrastructure in Doha for the FIFA World Cup, set to begin on November 20. "Our report found that one of the largest companies involved in the construction of these stadiums is the HBK company and that is owned by the Qatar royal family," Equidem's Namrata Raju said.
Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani was the sheikh of Qatar when FIFA announced the nation would host this year's World Cup back in 2010.HBK did the enabling works including site clearance, excavation and foundations for the Al-Wakrah Stadium, where Australia will play its first matches.In response to global outrage about exploitative working conditions and deaths of migrants employed to build World Cup infrastructure, FIFA and Qatar's government established work site inspections in 2017.
Another Indian worker from an HBK construction site said conditions were improved when inspectors arrived on site. "So they would go outside and then they would be promptly shoved into these vans, and then taken away to another worksite. In 2015, Indian worker Ajit Kumar worked in Qatar for two years building a residential tower on The Pearl in Doha — an artificial island of hotels, apartments, luxury shopping and high-end restaurants."There were so many projects under construction for the World Cup," he told the ABC.
Hopefully abcnews will also call out Amazon on the same basis
It’s up to the families of the deceased workers to address any matter in which adversity exists. I will support such actions against Qatari employers.
6,500 hard working people died building a homophobic stadium!!! And those workers were not even homosexual!!! Please enjoy your bloody mass grave at the Qatar World Cup 2022!!! Thousands of angry dead souls will come and get you while you are in Qatar!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
And there's no 'worker' abuse in Australia, why are some people so fixated on what's going on in other countries & keen to interfere in other peoples affairs, aren't there enough issues to worry about in Australia! 🤔