Sponsorship (Kafala system) Qatar

Very good and relevant thread! Thanks, John. However, whatelse can we do, but bash the system?

The same could be said about the United Nations when it comes to Syria, TB. Should the UN also wind up their offices and head home?

Whatever LP!

The probably here is not the government so much but promiment business men who control most of the economy and have a powerful voice. They are very much against a change to the slavery, eh ahem, sponsorship system to protect their interests.

They trot out the same arguments used by the American slave owners before abolishment in the 19th century. They are not ready to be trusted, where else would they go as they need work, we are helping protect them as they are uneducated, in fact we have many costs including housing workers and feeding them....

Remember virtual slavery of East Africans existed in Qatar up to the 1950s!

So many complaints but still people prefer QATAR. If you are not happy go back.

Shakti - Look at it from the victims point of view. Only if one is in that position will one understand. Im not undermining the country but this system - needs to be abolished or atleast made in a way that no one is held to ransom by the Sponsor!

SS - locally hired or otherwise NOC is at the discretion of your SPONSOR. If he says NO its a NO.

The only people who can raise voice are the QATARIS. If they do probably it could. Why. because it is their country. Do they give a damn care for expatriates for example ASIANS BEING TOP IN POPULATION IN QATAR. But my comment sounds funny.

No and yes depends only in the hand of a good and bad QATARI SPONSOR or a good and bad management.

Shakti - my point exactly! They Dont Care! If they did there wont be so many such labor camps with men living like MICE. They dont have their passports with them and are not paid on time.

And to add insult to injury there are BOX APPEAL campaigns! As if a bar of soap and water will elevate their situation!

I know good locals and i know locals who think we r nothing but slaves. Unfortunately the good ones a very very few in number. Very few.

No Shakti - not really. They have a good heart.

Iam born brought up in QATAR. But really not interested to work in this RICH COUNTRY because of the bad system here. Always better to start our own business in INDIA rather than being a slave.

come here take a loan and just run - no seriously no need for exit permit

shakti then when r u departing for past few years ur commenting the same Iam born brought up in QATAR. But really not interested to work in this RICH COUNTRY because of the bad system here. Always better to start our own business in INDIA rather than being a slave.

its like nana patekar dialouge from Welcome movie

u work n simultaneously rant , like spitting in the same plate from which u eat food

Work is ok. But if your not happy with the work it is better to rant.

i am afraid Qatar will loose its potential for ever if it continues to slavery system of workforce.

luxury. That is only for firangis and qataris.

Can your father try for me a job in his company

/-a-t-/mr_qatar, Sponsors do not have the right to keep the passports of their employees except to perform official business, unless it has been agreed in writing between both employee and employer.

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a few r well aware of the law still they jump in the well for the riyals what to do yaani

Kyon bhai. Iam serious dude :-)

busy with Ql sponsor :(

they cant dare to do such with born americans this person is basically from somewhere else (see his name)and got nationality (might be)... and they stop him coz they file a case against him but they do same with asians without any case...

/-a-t-/strawberry shish.. i knw sponsor dont have a right to keep employees passport but somehow employees are also responsible of their conditions.. coz so many asians employees left their sponsors and are working somewhere else illegally..

As for controlling those who take loans/credit cards, that's a business decision based on their risk analysis.

The problem in the UAE at the time of the economic downturn (and it happened globally) was that banks were issuing loans and credit cards willy nilly and people (stupdily and greedily) were taking them when they couldn't afford them.

Banks are a business and as such they are also responsible to ensure they do not lend or extend credit to those unable to pay or in an economic climate that precludes them from doing so as freely as they might have done in the past.

Can the banks calculate these risks perfectly? No, but they can minimize any potential losses by monitoring payment records etc. and tightening their lending criteria when the economy dictates.

Mr_Qatar

The way they should "control" people who have loans credit cards etc should be the same as in the rest of the world!

As MaryCatherine said funny how the rest of the world can give out loans etc without the need to try and keep people as slaves!
And it does nothing to stop people not paying back loans anyway! Lots of people have get massive loans and then go home on their holiday and never come back :-0!

Funnily that doesn't happen as much in the west because the banks won't lend the stupid amounts of money that they do here!
On my first day on Qatar I was taken to IBQ to setup an account the guy setting up my account was trying to give me an unsecured loan of 300,000QR on my first day in the country UNBELIEVABLE!

Stop bashing westerners monkey. Stop showing your hate for people that are different to you

When LP comes, the same time moza also comes. Hmm.

/-a-t-/mozaismyhero

By ur logic shouldnt u stop hating Qataris who r different than u???

I see a lot of Bush antics in ur writings....ie....if ur not with me ur against me!!!

U cant say stuff like we r hated cuz we r different then go and do the same thing!!!!

It's a form of slavery, and Qatar has been admonished by the UN, other countries and international organizations for the sponsorship system as a form of human trafficking.

However, so long as the workers continued to flood into the country and Qatar cooperates with Western strategic interests (it's not like the Russians or Chinese will complain about this), the system won't change.

The best way forward is for foreign governments to negotiate for better minimal salaries and working conditions.

Well then u have a very interesting way of NOT hating Qataris amigo!!!

What's wrong in asking a hopeful sponsor to give you a written statement that he will give you NOC at termination of the contract with the condition that no criminal charges are pending? It should be part of your contract!