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• Finance a public awareness campaign using mainstream media to raise consciousness
about trafficking and labor exploitation, and to educate companies, countries, and
football fans to these issues.
To Construction, Labor-Supply, and Other Companies Working in Qatar,
Including Companies Awarded or that Win Bids to Build World Cup-Related
Projects or Infrastructure
• Make public commitments to protect the rights of all workers associated with your
project(s), including pledges to:
o Take all possible steps to ensure no workers have paid fees associated with their
recruitment, including obtaining notarized statements from workers verifying that
they have not paid such fees, and from recruiting agents in Qatar and abroad that
they have not charged such fees, and commit to reimbursing workers who have
paid any such fees in contravention of local law, including if the fees were paid to
labor agencies or other intermediaries;
o Strictly prohibit the retention of workers’ passports or other identity documents,
including by subcontractors or intermediaries, and ensure that safe storage
facilities where they can access such documents are made available;
o Ensure that all workers receive and sign enforceable employment contracts in a
language that they understand prior to their migration. Ensure on-time payment in
full of workers’ wages from the first month of their employment, paid into bank
accounts on a no-less-than monthly basis;
o Ensure, in view of the requirement under Qatari law that employers provide worker
housing, adequate housing facilities for all workers in accordance with domestic
and international standards.
• Penalize and terminate relationships with any contractors or subcontractors that
continue to work with labor agencies or agents in Qatar or in labor-sending countries
that charge workers fees and/or mislead workers regarding conditions of
employment;
• Inform workers of their rights under Qatari law in languages that they understand,
including rights to overtime rates, to minimum numbers of days off and to holidays,
to extra compensation, to health and safety information, to medical care, and to
appropriate accommodation;
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