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Qatar is issuing a new law strengthens the protection of foreign workers by 2015  

Qatar promised facing pressure to improve conditions for workers in foreign-related World Cup football in 2022 projects, Sunday issuing new labor law puts an end to the system of the controversial bail early 2015.
She said the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Qatar said in a statement to AFP received a copy of the "projects (to reform laws) Tracking legislative mechanism and we will announce a new law by the beginning of next year."
Qatar, which had 1.6 million foreign workers live earlier announced its intention to cancel the controversial sponsorship system, which connects the establishment of foreign bail his employer.
This regimen is also exposed in other Gulf countries, has been widely criticized because it can put the worker at the mercy of his employer.
He said the statement issued Sunday that "a new law (...) currently under consideration and which will replace the sponsorship system (current), which surpassed the time, will be announced next year."
The ministry responded strongly to accusations that Qatar has not achieved any progress in the field of labor law reform. The statement said, "This is not true. We have a new law in our books and we have concrete plans for the application of existing and future laws more effectively."
She and the Ministry of Labor to take the improvement of workers put in place measures, including especially the reduction of the waiting period to get out into the 72-hour visa, knowing that to obtain this visa is necessary for any foreigner to leave the country, often with this thing a topic in the hands of the employer.
She also noted that Qatar will be applied in full before the end of the year a system to electronically pay salaries in the bank accounts of the workers in a period not exceeding seven days, that is doubled fine imposed on an employer who confiscate worker's passport five times.
The companies retain workers' passports are common in the Gulf.
And confirmed that the Ministry of Labour also said progress has been made in securing adequate housing for the workers and the establishment of an electronic system for complaints as well as shut down and fined facilities that do not respect the safety measures in the workshops.
The ministry has also indicated that it is considering cooperation with the International Organization for Action, a project to develop a "business strategy includes standards must be respected by all companies operating in Qatar."
Qatar and exposed continuously since it gained in 2010, the right to host the World Cup in 2022, to deal with criticism, especially the working conditions and the establishment of foreign workers.
And considered by Amnesty International last week that the actions taken by Qatar to curb abuses against foreign workers, "which is not enough."
He said the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, in September that his country is "seriously working to improve the" situation of foreign workers. Sheikh Tamim said in Berlin, "in regards to the development of foreign workers, we are working very seriously in order to improve the situation."
He acknowledged that Qatar Sheikh Tamim is not a "full state does not commit mistakes never," but he stressed that "the changes going on. That is the good news."
The non-governmental organizations condemned what they described as the "modern-day slavery" that migrant workers and Asians were experienced in particular, who come to Qatar to create the infrastructure for the World Cup after the investigation was published also the British newspaper The Guardian in September of last year, stating that dozens of Nepalese workers were died while they were working in Qatar.
Repeatedly denied Qatar for deaths outside the normal framework of the workers.
Qatar is facing a major challenge by 2022 is a huge construction Kalmlaab processing, hotels, and other metro network, which requires hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who are watching their situation of human rights organizations and the media puts them under a microscope.

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