Qatar –A report by a British consulting agency, Impactt, criticized the workers conditions in Qatar for building stadiums that will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, such as working for up to 18 hours a day and not having a day of rest since five months now which is more than twice the maximum amount permitted by law – an external report into working conditions has found.
Half of the 10 contracting companies surveyed in the compliance report, failed to give their employees even one day off per week. in the most extreme example, some laborers worked 148 days in a row, equivalent to five months without a day off, the study by London-based Impactt, which calls itself an “ethical trade consultancy”, found.
Although the report was commissioned by the body organising the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, its findings are likely to increase criticism of the Gulf emirate.
“Impactt identified critical non-compliances at six of 10 contractors audited,” read the report.
“These cases relate to excessive working hours (more than 72 total hours per week) or excessive overtime hours (more than two hours of overtime per day).”
The worst case Impactt found was the equivalent of some laborers working an 18-hour day, six days a week.
Under Qatari law, workers should complete a 48-hour week, equivalent to eight hours per day.
They can also work an extra two hours a day overtime and have at least one rest day per week.
Impactt’s report also identified the continual problem of migrant workers getting into debt by paying fees to work in the Gulf. Two workers at the same contractor were dismissed last October for apparently “inciting a strike”.
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