Qatar: 14 months after lauded labour reforms, workers say employers are "ignoring" new laws, refusing job change requests & withholding salaries
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Date Reported: 22 Ноя 2021
Местонахождение: Катар
Другое
Not Reported ( Охранные предприятия ) - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 1 - Индия , Охранные предприятия , Gender not reported )Темы
Запугивание и угрозы , Ограниченная мобильность , Кража зарплаты , Ограничение свободы передвиженияОтвет
Response sought: Нет
Принятые меры: None reported.
Вид источника: News outlet
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Date Reported: 22 Ноя 2021
Местонахождение: Катар
Другое
Not Reported ( Охранные предприятия ) - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 1
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 1 - Кения , Охранные предприятия , Gender not reported )Темы
Ограниченная мобильность , Ограничение свободы передвиженияОтвет
Response sought: Нет
Принятые меры: None reported.
Вид источника: News outlet
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Date Reported: 22 Ноя 2021
Местонахождение: Катар
Компании
Al Jaber Engineering - EmployerЗатронуто
Total individuals affected: 4
Мигранты и рабочие-иммигранты: ( 4 - Индия , Строительство , Gender not reported )Темы
Сборы за найм персоналаОтвет
Response sought: Yes, by Journalist
Принятые меры: Al Jaber Engineering did not respond to the Guardian's requests for comment.
Вид источника: News outlet
"The road to reform: have things improved for Qatar's World Cup migrant workers?" 22 Nov 2021
...Qatar announced sweeping labour reforms in 2019. This included ending kafala... Other reforms included the first minimum wage for migrant workers in the region and harsher penalties for companies that did not comply with the new labour laws...
the reforms were met with wide acclaim. Fifa called them groundbreaking. The UN said they marked a new era. An international trade union referred to them as a gamechanger. Even human rights groups, long critical of Qatar’s record on labour rights, gave them a cautious welcome.
Yet more than 40 migrant workers who talked to the Guardian in Qatar in September and October this year say that for them, nothing much has changed...
the Guardian met only one worker – a young man from Kenya – who had managed to leave his job...
[Workers] allege that their companies are simply ignoring the new laws. Some say their bosses threaten to impose fines or hold back wages if they try to change jobs, and that they are living so close to destitution this could be catastrophic.
Others workers say that employers refuse to sign resignation letters or to issue “no-objection certificates”, seemingly unaware that neither are required under the reformed labour code.
[Refers to Al Jaber Engineering.]