Saudi Arabia: Neom workers speak of '16-hour work days' in undercover film
Saudi Arabia: Neom workers speak of '16-hour work days' in undercover film
Migrant labourers for Saudi megacity project complain about safety risks and harsh conditions in documentary 'Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia'
Nicholas McGeehan, director at the UK-based human rights organisation FairSquare, said the working hours of the labourers at The Line were "way beyond what the international minimum standards permit".
"The reality is that workers all over Saudi Arabia are subject to deeply abusive and dangerous exploitation. The abuses are systematically happening across the country," McGeehan said.
Migrant workers make up three quarters of Saudi Arabia's workforce and are critical for the Vision 2030 projects.
Based on data released in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, the film reports that 21,000 foreign workers from the three countries have died since Vision 2030 was launched eight years ago in 2016.
What a surprise!!!?
It's almost like they set a bunch of absurdly unrealistic deadlines and now cannot figure out how to meet them
That may be part of it, but Saudi Arabia also has a long track record of being incredibly abusive and generally just not giving a shit about worker's rights.
Oh, absolutely. I would even say that description of their attitude towards workers rights is an understatement. I'm just talking about their lofty goals for the project and how even with the best engineers and best workforce in the world their stated timelines are physically impossible
Imagine being worked to death for a Ponzi scheme.
A cult that deems women as absolute property does consider non cult-members as property (AKA slaves) too? I'm so shocked and suprised.
The first part is false and the latter ignores that it is a class issue as the migrant workers can be Muslim.
Oh sorry, my bad. Islam is known for its strong women's rights. Class issue? So even more hipocrite than just abusing infidels? Next you probably say IS weren't muslim because they also kill muslims
So this is why Middle East Eye is blocked and not because of their pro-Palestinian posts.
Shocked I tell you....shocked!
21000 people sounds unbelievable. Are these film makers credible? 21000 people! I feel like you could say almost anything about the working conditions on these projects and I'd believe it at face value, but 21000!?