Tuesday 1 May 2012

Qatar to allow trade union, scrap 'sponsor' system - Ahram Online

Qatar is to allow the establishment of a trade union to protect labour rights and scrap the "sponsor" system for foreign workers, a top official said in local dailies on Tuesday.
The union, independent from the labour ministry, "will have the right to receive the complaints of workers and protect their rights," the ministry's undersecretary Hussein al-Mulla told Alarab daily.

The union "will be run by Qataris but as a foreigner you will have the right to vote but not run in the board of directors elections," he said, adding that the project awaited the emir's approval.

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