Post-World Cup monitoring shows mixed legacy for Qatar construction reforms

Three years on, independent monitors find wage protections holding but recruitment fee reimbursement stalled, as attention shifts to upcoming mega-events.

Independent monitoring of Qatar's labour reforms finds the wage protection system and heat protections have largely held since the World Cup, but the universal reimbursement of recruitment fees promised to workers remains less than a third complete.

Labour rights groups are pressing organisers of upcoming mega-events to adopt binding worker welfare standards at the bidding stage, applying Qatar's lessons before construction begins.