A Nepalese worker who suffered horrific abuses on World Cup projects claims that migrant workers who met the England team did not reflect the experiences of the vast majority and could even have been too afraid to tell the truth 🔴 samcunningham
“The overwhelming majority were deceived. Perhaps Fifa could have selected some of the workers who had a better situation or even could be those workers who are too intimidated to speak the truth. I have seen companies take action, or send workers back home for telling the truth while I was working. I experienced a different side and there are so many others who have faced different challenges.
A group of co-workers who he would live alongside in appalling conditions warned him: “We were deceived. This company is very bad.” The workers were told they would earn a salary of 900 Qatari riyals per month and that food would be included. But after starting work the salary reduced to 750 riyals and a further 150 was deducted to pay for food, leaving them a third short.
He wanted to return home, but he had taken out a $1,300 loan to pay an illegal recruitment fee, the burden of which was placed on his family back in Nepal. He was told the money would be repaid when he arrived in Qatar. “We were told it would be refunded but that was not the case,” Adsikari said.
The workers were too frightened to raise concerns even when serious mistreatment was occurring around them. Adsikari recalled one Indian co-worker lost his teeth in an accident on site. “I saw blood coming out from his ears,” he said. “We heard that whenever someone died the company would say the person had not died. If they said the worker had died then maybe the company would face a problem and the workers were too afraid. So the company would not tell the truth.”
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