In Qatar, the migrant workers who work as security guards at Al-Bidda Park are said to get one day off a month and are housed in filthy camps on the edge of the desert.
18.11. 20:48
Football Migrant workers working as security guards at the World Cup in Doha will be paid at least 40 cents an hour, according to a British newspaper The Guardian.
According to the guards, they work 12-hour shifts and usually only get one day off a month.
The security guards interviewed by The Guardian work at Al-Bidda Park, where a World Cup football fan festival is being held.
The guards say that they are not under contract with Fifa and do not participate in the fan festival.
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of The Guardian the information is based on interviews conducted in recent months with park rangers employed by Al Nasr Star Security Services.
An analysis by The Guardian based on the pay slips of the guards working in the park shows that the guards are typically paid around 360 euros per month for 348 hours of work, plus a small allowance for food. This includes 104 hours of overtime, for which they are paid about 40 cents an hour.
Such working hours and overtime pay violate Qatari labor laws.
Human rights organization Amnesty International in March this year in the published report found that worker abuse in the private security sector is common in Qatar.
“Security guards are an integral part of the smooth running of the World Cup… No one should have to work in such conditions, and compensation must be offered to all victims of abuse,” said Amnesty’s migrant working rights researcher Ella Knight.
According to Knight, The Guardian’s findings are “yet another clear example of the shortcomings of the reform process and how the continued shortcomings in the implementation of laws affect the lives of migrant workers in Qatar”.
of Qatar labor market reforms should mean that Al-Bidda park guards can move to better paid jobs.
According to the employees, it is very difficult in practice, and they believe that they still need their employer’s permission to apply for work elsewhere.
All the guards interviewed by The Guardian claim they were forced to pay illegal fees to recruitment companies operating in their home countries to get jobs.
This effectively forced them to work for up to five months to earn a salary equal to the recruitment fee.
The Guardian visited one of the guards’ camps and found rooms with four bunk beds cramped in a row at the end of a small space. There were no cupboards, and cutlery was crammed under the beds.
Outside there were two big dirty kitchens and smelly toilets. One guard said that the toilets at his camp were so bad that he preferred to use the toilets at the race park.
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