QR52.5mn recruitment fees to be paid back to Qatar 2022 workers

Temporary workers connected on 2022 FIFA World Cup ventures have consented to repay more than QR52.5mn ($14.4mn) to a large number of specialists who paid enrollment charges before moving to Qatar, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) has said.

Mahmoud Qutub, Workers’ Welfare official executive at the SC, declared the figure amid the ‘Work Law Reforms in Qatar: Challenges and Opportunities for Business’ meeting, which was sorted out by Qatar Chamber (QC) and the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs.

Joining Qutub on the board were Abdulla Y al-Mulla from Qatar Insurance Company, Fahad Zainal from Qatar Financial Center, and Sheikha Amal al-Thani from Qatar Foundation. The board was directed by Abdulaziz al-Kuwari, executive of Legal Affairs, QC.

Mahmoud Qutub at the conference

Qutub said Qatar’s facilitating of the World Cup is helping tackle the worldwide issue of deceptive enrollment. Various laborers were compelled to pay enlistment charges in their nations of origin before moving to Qatar, notwithstanding the work on being illicit under Qatari law.

“No specialist should bear the expense of enrollment charges; that expense ought to be borne by the temporary worker,” said Qutub, while partaking in a board session titled ‘Promising Initiatives and Practices in Qatar’.

“We draw in with temporary workers to enable them to comprehend the advantage of repaying laborers and to emphasize it is essentially the correct activity.

“We work together with temporary workers who share our vision and who need to be a piece of the voyage towards 2022. We require them to see how much specialists may need to pay out of their own pocket and why this procedure is so vital.”

The SC has teamed up with neighborhood contractual workers to return cash in the pockets of specialists. The undertaking started in late 2017 and will prompt specialists specifically engaged with Qatar 2022 framework ventures accepting QR39.4mn ($10.8mn) throughout the following three years. Moreover, five SC contractual workers have consented to repay in excess of 8,000 specialists not locked in on Qatar 2022 activities, which will prompt a further QR13mn ($3.6mn) of installments.

Altogether, QR52.5mn will be repaid to laborers, the SC has said.

Qutub said the venture demonstrated that the “SC’s responsibility to inheritance was at that point having an effect” – four years previously the competition commences.

“The effect in a short space of time has been sensational,” said Qutub. “We have gone from the vulnerability of endeavoring to handle a complex worldwide issue, to participating in open exchange with temporary workers that has profited in excess of 33% of our workforce. This is the inheritance of a World Cup in real life.”

Notwithstanding enrollment expenses, Qutub likewise featured a scope of different activities conveyed by the SC’s Workers’ Welfare Department, quite the complaint systems accessible to laborers and the sustenance program actualized nearby Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar.

Qutub additionally talked about a cooperation with UK-based TechNiche and Hamad Bin Khalifa University to build up the ‘AirCool’ suit – a ‘progressive article of clothing’ intended to limit warm weight on building locales.

Held at the Sheraton Doha, the meeting was opened by HE the Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs Dr Issa Saad al-Jafali al-Nuaimi and QC director Sheik Khalifa container Jassim al-Thani. The gathering laid out the chances and difficulties confronting Qatar’s business network in connection to late law changes.

The two-day occasion, which was upheld by the International Labor Organization’s Project Office in Qatar and the Institute for Human Rights and Business, gave a stage to a portion of Qatar’s most compelling government authorities, private area elements and human rights specialists.