At a Qatar Project Overseen by Americans, Workers Die Almost Daily - Businessweek

At a Qatar Project Overseen by Americans, Workers Die Almost Daily - Businessweek:

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Photograph by Qatar 2022 via Bloomberg

An artist illustration of Lusail City stadium, designed for the Qatar 2022 World Cup final

Apple (AAPL) and Nike (NKE), among American companies, have been held responsible for labor conditions at overseas factories where their products are made. Should American construction and engineering groups also be called to account for worker mistreatment at offshore projects they manage?

Britain’s Guardian newspaper reports that immigrant workers on a massive construction project in Qatar are being treated inhumanely and dying at a rate of almost one per day from on-the-job accidents and heart failure.

Parsons Corp., in Pasadena, Calif., is managing construction of the $45 billion Lusail City project near the capital city, Doha, that’s being built by Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund to accommodate the 2022 soccer World Cup. A British unit of CH2M Hill, in Meridian, Colo., is listed on Lusail City’s website as one of three key contractors on the project. The two others are Hyder Consulting (HYC:LN) of Britain and Denmark’s Cowi."

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