Qatar: 14 months after lauded labour reforms, workers say employers are "ignoring" new laws, refusing job change requests & withholding salaries
摘要
日期: 2021年11月22日
地點: 卡塔爾
其他
Not Reported ( 安保公司 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 印度 , 安保公司 , Gender not reported )議題
恐嚇和威脅 , Restricted mobility , Wage Theft , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: None reported.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2021年11月22日
地點: 卡塔爾
其他
Not Reported ( 安保公司 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 肯亞 , 安保公司 , Gender not reported )議題
Restricted mobility , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
Response sought: 否
後續行動: None reported.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2021年11月22日
地點: 卡塔爾
企業
Al Jaber Engineering - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 4
移民和移民工人: ( 4 - 印度 , 建築 , Gender not reported )議題
招聘費用回應
已邀請回應：是，由Journalist
後續行動: Al Jaber Engineering did not respond to the Guardian's requests for comment.
資訊來源: 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.]