Qatar says 'factual errors' in report about mistreating 2012 FIFA WC venue construction workers

Qatar has said that an international labour union's report, which accused it of mistreating workers who are constructing venues for football's 2022 World Cup, was riddled with 'factual errors'.

The Arab emirate has reportedly been under mounting pressure to improve the working and living conditions of migrant labour who are building the muli-billion-dollar infrastructure for the tournament.

According to The Express Tribune, Qatar World Cup organising committee has said that the International Trade Union Confederation report is 'littered with factual errors' and attempts to 'discredit the positive work' they are undertaking.

ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow went on a site visit to Al-Wakrah Stadium and reported that 38 World Cup workers from India, Nepal and Thailand were living in a poor condition with mattresses on the floor in 'makeshift rooms' underneath the bleachers or stadium seats.

Burrow said that Qatar is a government, which takes no responsibility for workers.

However, the Qatar committee said that the ITUC claimed that the report referred to accommodation not being used by construction workers on the stadium adding that their 108 construction workers live in a refurbished accommodation on Street No. 23 in Doha's Industrial Area, which the ITUC never visited or requested to do so.

Despite no reference to deaths among construction workers in the report by ITUC, the Qatar committee said that no one has died on World Cup projects, the report added.