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Expatriate Labour in Qatar not worth it?
Do any of you actually buy this? How on earth would any infrastructure get built if it wasn't for expatriate labour. How can you be dependent on foreign labour while they cost you more than they are worth. If that was so, Qatar wouldn't make a profit! This one is beyond me...
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Doha - Expatriate labourers are actually proving more of a burden to the country than providing any benefits, according to a study on urban development and internal migration carried out by the Population Research Permanent Committee.The study found that the cost of bringing in and maintaining labourers here is more than the inputs they are providing the state.
Calculations revealed that the government ends up paying QR3,500 per month per person coming into the country in the low-income category.
The study has noted that only 12 per cent of the country's workforce was constituted of Qatari nationals, setting off alarm bells as it shows the extent to which Qatar is dependent on outside workers.
The study said: "The situation must have some outcome. The steady influx of workers from outside has its risks, politically, socially, economically and culturally."
Qatari families are being affected by the influx of labourers and cultural values are being eroded. In the middle of the 20th century, there was a balance in the population, said the report.
In 1970, 40,000 foreign workers came to Qatar accounting for 83 per cent of the workforce.
In 1997, the figure had shot up to 235,000 or 84 per cent of the workforce and in 2004, there were 391,000 incoming workers.
In 2001, workers from the Indian subcontinent and Iran made up 71 per cent of those entering the country while Gulf and other Arabs made up 25 per cent, the report said.
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amnesia said
It's referring to the blue ...It's referring to the blue collar works.
The article is saying that it's costing the country more per person than it is benefiting.
It is not referring to white collars in my opinion.
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Qman said
Expatriate Work Force ...The article is very clear referring to Expatriate laborers, thus it is the blue collar. This is the norm in all developing country were a one stage the country would be depending on external work force to do all the physical development.
It may cost such amount to bring in these work force but one need to calculate the $ of work these laborers has completed during their stay here. If Qatar is prepared to use the local work force to do all these work then I presume the development is going to show down drastically and the cost of maintaining local work force is going to be much higher.
Why don't they do a study to see which would cost them more, the locals of expatriates and the implication to the development of this country?
In my opinion the article is very shallow in its research and does not show any significant to the development that has taken place in Qatar for the past years. Please ask the question would one think the country would be in such a state of progress if it was not for this laborers working here for such a low pay and high cost of living.
qatari said
blue collar too ...Even with Blue Collar workers - if they were not here you wouldn't have infrastructure to extract gas, etc.
This is simple maths I think
profit = income - cost
If you remove blue colour labour, you'd have a lower cost but you'd also have a much lower income...since you wouldn't be able to get gas out nor move it around.
It's all just priming so people can sleep better when they shaft the workers!
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SAGE778 said
THE REPORT IS Ridiculous ...That's it people. Pack up your stuff because we are no longer wanted or needed here according to the report.
You think this shows something about how appreciated poor manual laborers are in Qatar? This is disgusting to me. These people build this country and have very little to show for it. Not even appreciation, nothing.
Qatarsucks.com will be all over this ridiculous report.
ooo said
"The study has noted that ..."The study has noted that only 12 per cent of the country's workforce was constituted of Qatari nationals, setting off alarm bells as it shows the extent to which Qatar is dependent on outside workers."
Right! As if any Qatari would do blue collar labour type work. Who writes this stuff!!
Cnidaria said
Another study ...I read in the new paper the chornicle a study showed that only 12% of people working in Qatar were happy with their pay...... 12% of workforce are Qatari?! interesting figures.
Qatari comments summed it up, there are 10,000s of labourers currently in Ras Laffan building all sorts of stuff, without them Qatar would be quite literally a backwater of bahrain never mind Dubai - which always amazes when i go back there as to the extent of the new development, crazy, unsustainalbe bit it keeps coming.....
2masti said
as far as the labour is ...as far as the labour is concerned ,amount of money paid to them in getting work done is a tiny percent of the net national income of the counrty.besides its not that the labour resides here for free. every thing is charged for. expatriates pay for every thing from water, electricity ,rp's, medical.even cost of tickets to go home r much expensive here than other gcc states. hmm i wonder how my sponser would be drving his fancy cars if it wasnt for all the blue collar labours tolling in the sun day after day while he sits in his majilis drinking tea.
aviduser said
And I'm back ...The article is total Rubbish, There simply isn't enough Qataris to do all the jobs in this country, never mind the fact that they wouldn't do the jobs anyway. Qataris on construction sites, cleaning cars, being tea boys the list goes on and on.
Without all the expatriates this place simply would not function, and I'm not saying Qataris are lazy there just aren't the numbers here.
The Money paid to many expat workers is disgusting and the for an article to be written in such a tone is insulting to those poor guys slaving away building this place.
If the article wanted to say anything constructive how about asking for a minimum wage for all workers here, after all I am pretty sure the country could afford it.
This sort of article is probably written by someone who 2masti describes above a guy drinking tea while getting a blue collar guy to type at the computer while he dictates this shite.
ooo said
That’s right Aviduser, I ...That’s right Aviduser, I too find this article offensive and insulting. I find it an insult to the poor labourers (as if they don’t get abused enough already), an insult to the expatriates in general, and least but not last an insult to my intelligence!
RED_POPE said
My comment ...Just follow the comic strip as my comment.
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2masti said
hey i dint mean to offend ...hey i dint mean to offend any one .just putting out what i feel.
knoxcollege said
yay yay yay yayeee ...Finally someone is able to get the facts right. Me wonders is it cheaper to send the workers home or to send them to gas chambers? Me wants to go home. (gas smells bad)
Hitler also blamed the jews...........
mir83 said
Lousy report ...The findings are incorrect... The supply of blue collar workers is so high in India that the Asian Games construction and other proceedings were successful with the Indian workforce..... Here the Locals are unwilling to work even in private sector jobs.... Can they afford to pay huge sums for doing blue collared jobs..??? Big question.....
Improve the Human rights that would be a better step...
oamonteiro said
STRIKE ...If this type of reports had to be published in in other country all workers would have gone on STRIKE.
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