Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Qatar of violating the rights of migrant workers and highlighted "the wide gap between the promises of reform kept by the Qatari authorities and the reality experienced by these workers".
The organization said that the authorities have failed to provide justice to foreign workers at two companies that have deprived them of their wages for months despite numerous complaints. Created in 2018 by the government, the Workers Support and Insurance Fund has not been used to resolve the situation of these workers.
HRW revealed that it informed Qatari authorities on September 28 that nearly 400 civil servants have been deprived of their salaries for at least ten months and that the various complaints they filed last June had no result.
Responding to HRW's letter, the government media office explained that the Ministry of Labor has placed the companies involved in this affair on the blacklist of companies and has launched the necessary legal procedures to sanction them. However, workers continue to wait to be paid, HRW said.
The NGO reported that workers at Lalibela for Cleaning and Services, a company that provides cleaning agents to households and offices, have been deprived of their wages for months and suffer significant other violations.
For her part, the head of the Middle East and North Africa division at HRW stated that "the Qatari authorities have always called on the workers to inform them in case of non-payment so that they can arrange their situation. However, the growing number of unpaid workers shows that Qatar still does not have an effective system in place to protect wages.
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