Qatar: Report reveals worker deaths, injuries & exploitative recruitment practices on construction projects; incl. co. comments
Resumo
Data informada: 26 Mar 2014
Localização: Quatar
Empresas
Al Sraiya Trading and Contracting - Employer , Dorsch - ClientProjetos
Lusail City - ClientAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Bangladesh , Construção Civil , Gender not reported )Temas
Mortes , Personal HealthResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Journalist
Medidas tomadas: The manager of the employer, Al-Sraiya, called the incident a "disaster" and blamed the accident on previous poor compliance of another company. The position of planner Dorsch Group is reportedly that there have been no deaths at Lusail City.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 26 Mar 2014
Localização: Quatar
Empresas
Qatar & Middle East Trading - Employer , Sampada Overseas - RecruiterAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Nepal , Construção Civil , Gender not reported )Temas
Taxas de Recrutamento , Restricted mobility , Privação da liberdade de ir e virResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Journalist
Medidas tomadas: Sampada Overseas told Welt that they charged migrant workers recruitment fees to place them in Qatari companies. The journalist called the manager at Qatar & Middle East after workers were left stranded at Hamad Airport for hours, after telling the journalist it was too late for the worker to be picked up the manager sent a car after he heard the caller was a journalist.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
"The inhuman suffering of the guest workers in Qatar," 26 Mar 2014
The FIFA World Cup is to take place in Qatar in 2022. According to increased reports over the past few months construction workers are treated like slaves, there were even deaths. Who is to blame? Our reporter Tim Röhn has been looking for answers in Doha and Kathmandu. And has found out that probably also German companies are involved...
The third paper, [Nepali worker Nijmal] says, is an employment contract. But it is not. It is an agreement between Sampada Overseas and the Qatari labour recruitment office Qatar & Middle East Trading & Contracting about the delivery of workers to the emirate. It is written how much simple Nepalese workers should earn. A man named Nijmal is not mentioned therein. However, apparently he was told this is a contract. They let him sign it. Now on a useless document in English language there is written “NIJMAL”...
“I have 400 agents throughout Nepal who recruit workers”, says Peshai Rai, director of Sampada Overseas with a broad grin on his face. He is sitting in his plain office on the second floor and is tapping the buttons of his smartphone. Rai makes no secret of the fact that not the companies are paying his services but the people sent abroad. The amount is to be paid immediately, precisely even before departure. 10,000 Nepalese rupee, Rai says, he doesn’t demand more for each recruitment. That would be about 75 euros. There are workers that arrive in Doha having receipts with them that prove: They have paid much more. Like Nijmal...
The German-Egyptian is standing in the dust of his building site, pressing his lips together. He is the manager of the Qatari construction company Al-Sraiya, which is building a luxury hotel with 18 floors in Lusail City. For the worker from Bangladesh the construction site turned into a death trap...
There are no deaths in Lusail City. That’s what the Dorsch Group, which claims to be the biggest independent German planning group, explains to the general public. They deny that people have lost their lifes in Lusail City. The Offenbach-based company which employs 1800 people and operates in 40 countries is responsible for site supervision in Lusail City.