{"id":20009,"date":"2024-12-01T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20009"},"modified":"2024-12-01T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:26:42","slug":"fifa-rejects-own-committees-call-to-compensate-qatar-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20009","title":{"rendered":"Fifa rejects own committee&#039;s call to compensate Qatar workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Controversy over the human cost of building the infrastructure required for the 2022 tournament in the gulf state&#8217;s extreme summer heat has hung over the event for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2021, it was revealed that 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since it won its bid to host the World Cup in 2010. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Qatari government said not all the deaths recorded were of people working on World Cup-related projects, and that many could have died from old age or other natural causes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the event, organisers said the number of migrant workers who died on World Cup-related projects was &#8220;between 400 and 500&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qatar introduced labour reforms from 2017, with more protection for workers, a minimum wage, and the dismantling of the controversial &#8216;kafala&#8217; sponsorship system, but there have been long-standing concerns over the implementation of the changes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite generating a record \u00a36bn from the World Cup, Fifa resisted calls from campaigners, players\u2019 unions, fan representative groups and some European football federations for a \u00a3350m compensation fund for the families of workers who were injured or who had died, instead committing instead to the legacy fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2728j9r7zo\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy over the human cost of building the infrastructure required for the 2022 tournament in the gulf state&#8217;s extreme summer heat has hung over the event for years. In 2021, it was revealed that 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since it won its bid to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}