December 3 – FIFA is not responsible for the conditions of migrant workers employed to build stadiums for the 2022 Qatar World Cup, Sepp Blatter has re-iterated. But FIFA are monitoring the situation in Qatar closely with constant feedback over the welfare of foreign workers following an international outcry over their ill-treatment.
For decades, migrant workers largely from Nepal but also from other countries like India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Philippines have poured into the Gulf region to find work.
The Qatari authorities say they are reforming some of their antiquated labour laws, such as scrapping the withholding of passports by employers, and Blatter says ultimately it’s up to the companies employing foreign workers to change their ways.
More than 1.6 million foreign workers are employed in Qatar, where they outnumber the local workforce by nearly 20 to one, according to official statistics.
“In Qatar they are working in big companies from Germany, from France, from England and from other European countries and they are responsible of their workers and not FIFA,” Blatter told reporters on a visit to Sri Lanka.
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