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Qatar introduces a minimum wage for workers, features details
Qatar government introduces a minimum wage for workers
World Cup 2022 host Qatar has announced on 25 October 2017, that it would be introducing a minimum wage for workers, the country has been under global scrutiny over its alleged ill-treatment of migrant laborers.
The gas-rich emirate has also signed bilateral accords with 36 countries from which it draws most of its two-million-strong foreign workforce, to provide legal protection for workers headed to the Gulf.
The announcement shared by the country’s Minister of Administrative development, labor and social affair Issa Saad al-Jafali al-Nuaimid, during an International Labor Organization (ILO) meeting with foreign diplomats.
The minister said the minimum wage initiative would aim to meet the necessary needs of the workers, to enable them to live at an appropriate humanitarian level.
