At the request of the General Secretary I was privileged to have participated on behalf of the Connect Trade Union in the ILO and BWI Conference on Working Conditions of Migrant Workers in Qatar which was held at the ILO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, 22nd October, 2014.

The objective of the conference was to utilize the platform of the ILO and the framework of the ILO international standards for trade unions and multinational companies operating in Qatar to work together co-operatively to find concrete and realistic solutions to improve the labour standards of migrant workers in Qatar.

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The Qatari Ambassador to Switzerland also participated in the conference. The Unions that attended expressed their dissatisfaction at the lack of progress by the Qatari government in ensuring the
implementation of the Contract Provisions as drawn up by the ITUC and Human Rights
Watch. The Delegates also called for the implementation of the ITUC recommendations on the Rights of Migrant Workers in Qatar.

 

Pat Guilfoyle,
Regional Secretary.

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