DOHA, Aug 28: Some 600 foreign construction workers, half of them Indian, have gone on strike in Qatar in protest at their employer’s failure to pay their salaries and poor living conditions, an Indian embassy official said on Sunday.
“Some 300 Indian (workers) and others from Sri Lanka and Nepal, in addition to some Egyptians, have been on strike for a few days” in protest at their treatment by their employer, a local contracting company, the second secretary in charge of labour, R. Chambre, said.
Ms Chambre said the labourers had not been paid for periods ranging from two to six months.—AFP
