…FIFA and Qatar have failed in the past year to remedy abuses of migrant workers who made the 2022 Qatar World Cup possible,…

Qatar’s labor reforms, made under intense global scrutiny, were extremely limited due to their late introduction, narrow scope, or poor enforcement, and that scores of migrant workers fell through the cracks…

FIFA’s irresponsible abandonment of migrant workers in Qatar and Qatar’s poor enforcement of reforms meant that many of the workers remain in Qatar in the post-tournament slowdown without work or pay and with outstanding wages and benefits contractually owed to them…

…Qatar’s labor court has continued to be very slow in adjudicating outstanding cases brought by migrant workers…

Some migrant workers have attempted to sue companies in jurisdictions outside Qatar. Forty Filipino migrant workers recently filed a lawsuit in the US state of Colorado against Jacobs Solutions…

In an October statement to Quartz, Jacobs Solutions responded…

…Al Jaber had hired workers under short-term project visas that forced them to return home before the end of their two-year contracts... Al Jaber denied claims that workers paid recruitment fees in their response to Human Rights Watch…