A construction worker at Lusail's 80,000-seat venue
QATAR claimed to abolish their vile “modern slavery” kafala system today and announced a new “evidence-based minimum wage law” from January 2020.
The bloodstained Gulf state won the right to stage the 2022 World Cup in a controversial vote by football’s governing body Fifa during December 2010.
In the wake of delivering the successful bid for international football’s showpiece event, there was increased scrutiny over Qatar’s diabolical labour laws governing the estimated two million migrant workers who have been exploited while building the infrastructure.
The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR