"Qatar vaccination centre temporary staff not paid," 9 Mar 2022

Close to 400 nursing technicians, physicians assistants and other staff at the Qatar Vaccination Centre for Business and Industry Sector have not been paid for two months. The staff are employed on temporary contracts at the Bu Garn vaccination centre... [which] replaces the previous one that was operating from the Industrial area from June to October 2021.

... those categorised as nursing technicians are medical practitioners who have nursing or medical degrees, and that many of them were employed at the previous centre as well. According to some of them, salaries due in the last two months of their earlier contract are only now being settled. The nursing technicians are primarily from India and the Philippines, and draw between QR8000 and QR9000 (USD$2,100-2470) a month, and work 12-hour shifts, five days a week. The staff are not entitled to overtime pay and end-of-service benefits...

The contracts reviewed by MR were under the Hamad Medical Corporation... Migrant-Rights.org has written to the Hamad Medical Corporation and the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) that is responsible for the centre and awaits their response...

“Hamad Medical Corporation confirms that all temporary staff employed at the Qatar Vaccination Center for Business and Industry Sector – which opened on 9 January 2022 – have received their salaries in accordance with the agreed contractual terms.

Therefore, all temporary employees received their January salaries in mid-February, and the February salaries will be paid by Sunday 13 March.

HMC operates in full accordance with Qatar’s labor laws..."