Players’ complaints overshadow Qatari attempts to project improved workers’ rights
By James M. Dorsey
Employment-related complaints by two international players, one of whom is barred from leaving Qatar, threaten to overshadow the 2022 World Cup organizing committee’s release of a charter of worker’s rights designed to fend off criticism of labor conditions in the Gulf state.
In separate interviews French-Algerian player Zahir Belounis,…
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