Qatar 2022: Al Sulaiteen workers at Al Bayt stadium reportedly living in unsuitable housing, having paid recruitment fees & unable to change jobs; incl. comment from FIFA
摘要
日期: 2022年9月20日
地點: 卡塔爾
企業
Al Sulaiteen Agricultural & Industrial Complex - Employer , FIFA - Partner項目
Al Janoub Stadium (previously called Al Wakrah) - Client , Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium/ Al Rayyan Stadium - Client , Al Bayt Stadium - Client受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 印度 , 園藝和景觀美化 , Men , Documented migrants ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 尼泊爾 , 園藝和景觀美化 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 孟加拉 , 園藝和景觀美化 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )議題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 招聘費用 , Restricted mobility , Poverty Wages , Personal Health , 剝奪遷徙自由回應
已邀請回應：是，由The Guardian.
回應的外部鏈接： (查看更多)
後續行動: The Guardian reached out to Al Sulaiteen but they did not provide any response. FIFA commented saying they already have measures in place to prevent abuse in addition to having pushed for extra measures. The World Cup Supreme Committee called the incident an individual case of wrongdoing and said workers affected by Al Sulaiteen can raise their grievances through a dedicated hotline.
資訊來源: News outlet
Ekkasit A Siam, Shutterstock
"Workers at Qatar’s World Cup stadiums toil in debt and squalor", 20 Sep 2022
...Yet the men who labour day after day in the relentless heat and humidity to maintain this remarkable green space – watering the grounds, cutting the grass and painstakingly pulling up weeds by hand – live in very different conditions.
At the end of each shift, they are driven for 40 minutes to the edge of the desert, where they are dropped off at a farm belonging to their employer, Al Sulaiteen Agricultural and Industrial Complex (SAIC). Inside, among rows of giant greenhouses, they return to their rooms in small rundown cabins.
Some house three or four workers in single beds, others five or six in bunks, but all those viewed by the Guardian were windowless, cramped and dirty. Towels draped between the upper and lower bunks provide what little privacy there is...
All the workers interviewed, who are from Bangladesh, Nepal and India, say they were forced to pay illegal fees to agents in their own countries to secure their jobs...
SAIC did not respond to requests for comment.
“In addition to the extensive measures already introduced, which aim to support workers involved in the preparation and delivery of the World Cup, Fifa has actively pushed for the implementation of broader labour reforms that apply to all companies and projects across the country and benefit all workers in Qatar.”FIFA