Working at the construction sites of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has given “dignity” and “pride” to migrant workers, said FIFA President Gianni Infantino, when asked about their working conditions, a topic of controversy in for several months.
Asked at a Milken Institute international conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday about FIFA’s possibility of helping the families of migrants who died at these construction sites, Infantino did not specifically respond, but he insisted the progress was Qatar has done, particularly by introducing a minimum wage and improving workers ’rights in recent years.
Let’s not forget one thing when we talk about this topic: we’re talking hard, hard work. […] America is an immigration country. My parents also moved from Italy to Switzerland, although it wasn’t too far awaycontinued the FIFA President.
When you give someone a job, even in difficult conditions, you give them dignity and pride. This is not charity. You don’t give someone something by saying, “All right, stay where you are. I’m happy because I can give you something.”
According to Infantino, three people died by building stadiums for the next World Cup: We investigate these issues with outside agencieshe assured.
other workers may have died at other construction sites, but FIFA is not the world’s police and is not responsible for everything that happens in the worldHe added.
But thanks to FIFA, thanks to football, we have been able to deal with the status of all the million and a half workers who are in Qatar.
Qatar, which has notably introduced a universal mandatory monthly minimum wage (1,000 Qatari riyals, or approximately C $ 350, plus allowances for food and shelter), claims they have made more than abroad in the region and firmly denying the deaths at construction sites advance by the international media.
Source: Radio-Canada
