Qatar is delaying payment of wages for migrant workers
Qatar is delaying payment of wages for migrant workers. In a report issued on Saturday, Human Rights Watch said that the Qatari efforts to ensure regular payment of workers' wages in full, "do not meet" international standards, talking about gaps in the protection systems for migrant workers. Foreigners make up 90% of Qatar's 2.75 million people, the majority of them from developing countries working on projects related to the hosting of the 2022 World Cup. In 2015, Qatar established a wage protection system to ensure that employers adhere to the deadlines for paying their employees' wages in full, against the backdrop of criticism by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in this regard. A Human Rights Watch report revealed that an unnamed employer had delayed the payment of his managers ’wages for 5 months, and his workers’ wages for two months, highlighting loopholes in the Ministry of Labor’s monitoring of non-compliance with the payment of wages...