The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has released its first Semi-Annual Workers’ Welfare Compliance Report outlining the organisation’s goals, achievements, and challenges in relation to the first six months of implementing the SC Workers’ Welfare Standards (WW Standards).
Developed in consultation with experts in labour and human rights, the WW Standards are a contractually binding set of requirements for all contractors working on SC projects. The compliance report is a self-assessment of the SC’s experience applying the WW Standards in the six-month period after their release in February 2014.
“The Supreme Committee continues to make important strides in improving the welfare of workers,” said Hassan al-Thawadi, Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy. “This report is an honest self-assessment, highlighting how complex this issue is and the difficulties we have faced, but also the significant progress we have made.”
The report marks the first time the SC has publicly disclosed compliance data on FIFA World Cup projects. “Even though we are quite early on in the process, we feel that we have a responsibility to be transparent and update our stakeholders on progress,” said Farah al-Muftah, Chair of the SC Workers’ Welfare Committee (WWC). “We hope that by getting this information out in the public domain, we can launch a productive discussion about some of the challenges we face and how to scale up the solutions that have been successful so far.”
The report, which contains anecdotes submitted by both contractors and workers, outlines the SC’s key achievements in the first six-months of applying the WW Standards.
