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This ended the forced labour scheme in Qatar and improved the migrant workers’ living and work conditions, regardless of their nationality. In 2020, Qatar became the second country in the Gulf region to set a minimum wage for migrant workers, after Kuwait.
Additionally, in 2015, the Qatari government announced its plan to set up an electronic contract system, in which workers can find their labor contract which would be available in ten different languages. [68] In January 2020, Qatar ended the 'kafala' sponsorship system with reforms and the removal of exit permit requirements for most workers.
The International Transport Workers' Federation and the International Trade Union Confederation have alleged that the Qatari government fails to enforce its 2004 labor law on a consistent basis, with the former criticizing Qatar Airways' treatment of its female employees, [3] and the latter challenging Qatar's treatment of migrant workers. [4]
The state of human rights in Qatar is a concern for several non-governmental organisations, such as the Human Rights Watch (HRW), which reported in 2012 that hundreds of thousands of mostly South Asian migrant workers in construction in Qatar risk serious exploitation and abuse, sometimes amounting to forced labour. Qatar is an authoritarian ...
The U.N.-backed International Labor Organization says reforms introduced follo. When Qatar hosted the World Cup a little over a year ago, the wealthy emirate faced intense scrutiny over its human ...
The International Labour Organization said "Qatar is the first country in the region to introduce a non-discriminatory minimum wage, which is a part of a series of historical reforms of the country's labour laws", [56] while the campaign group Migrant Rights said the new minimum wage was too low to meet migrant workers' need with Qatar's high ...
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