FIFA-approved luxury hotels in Qatar, which are preparing to host thousands of officials and sponsors at the World Cup, have paid staff the equivalent of 1-an-hour and haven’t paid overtime, according to human rights investigators.
The world governing body, which stands to make more than 3billion from the tournament that has cost an estimated 138bn to stage, has endorsed dozens of establishments throughout the country.
With suites costing up to 5,000-a-night at the swankiest establishments and Dom Perignon champagne on ice at 790-a-bottle, Qatar will be a blow-out for the world’s super-rich and the well-connected.
The tournament, which features 32 teams and more than 800 players, will also bring the world’s best-paid footballers to the wealthy oil-state. Among them will be Brazil’s Neymar, who earns 600,000-a-week, his PSG team mate, Kylian Mbappe of France, who earns 1m-a-week and Erling Haaland, who takes home 375,000 per week at Manchester City and plays for Norway.
But as privileged guests dip in the pools and spas, lounge on private beaches, and walk the tropical gardens and lush lawns coaxed from the desert, members of Qatar’s two-million migrant workforce will be serving them on minimum wages and working 12 to 15 hours a day, a human rights group claims.
A report into labour abuses at venues in Qatar and neighbouring countries has been compiled by Equidem and the Global Labour Justice – International Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF) ahead of the World Cup, which begins on...
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