Qatar firms’ failure to pay leaves migrant workers destitute – report

Despite government measures, thousands left struggling during Covid outbreak as companies withhold salaries and benefits, research shows

Companies in Qatar have failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars" in salaries and other benefits to low-wage workers since the coronavirus outbreak, according to new research by the human rights group Equidem.

In its report, Equidem describes how thousands of workers have been dismissed without notice, put on reduced wages or unpaid leave, denied outstanding salary and end of service payments, or forced to pay for their own flights home.