Qatar: AlBateel security co. allegedly involved in deceptive recruitment practices, wage abuses and strenuous working conditions of migrant workers
要約
Date Reported: 2022年3月7日
場所: カタール
企業
AlBateel Group - Employerプロジェクト
Aspire Zone - Doha Sports City - Unknown関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( 1 - アフリカ , 警備会社 , Gender not reported ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - ケニア , 警備会社 , Gender not reported )課題
Poverty Wages , 採用費 , 威嚇及び脅迫 , Restricted mobility , Failing to renew visas , Contract Substitution , 死 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Personal Health , 移動の自由の否定回答
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
External link to response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: The company declined to comment.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
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"The human cost of the Qatar World Cup" 7 March 2022
Migrant workers brought in under the sponsor system to build and guard the new football stadiums, hotels and malls are overworked, in debt, and trapped in the country.
... He had his passport confiscated and doesn’t have health cover, yet he works 12 hours a day, seven days a week. The work is brutal and exhausting and it isn’t even summer yet when temperatures in Qatar soar to 50°C.
David’s pay is a paltry 1 000 Qatari rials (about R4 200) a month, the minimum wage. The recruitment fee he paid to come to Qatar was $2 000 (about R30 500)...He is on probation for six months and, indebted, can neither quit his job nor leave the country...
He claims that most Al Bateel Securicor workers don’t have Hamad health cards, which employers are legally obligated to give to their employees so that they can use Qatar’s public health system...
Suing their employers is risky. Workers could lose their housing and income, and they risk deportation and becoming more indebted. They also often have little with which to substantiate and prove their claims as payslips and other documentation are mostly non-existent or withheld...
Al Bateel declined to comment telephonically on the allegations levelled against it. The company and the government’s media office had not responded to questions emailed in January at the time of publishing.