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An organisation the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the working conditions of builders in Qatar. It is about the workers. It said they very low pay and their work is very dangerous. Sometimes employers do not the workers their salary. The construction companies away the worker's passports. The men do not get free drinking water, even though they in temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius. Nepal's embassy in Qatar's capital city, Doha, said 44 Nepalese workers in two months this summer. Most of the men died from heart attacks or workplace accidents. The ITUC that up to 4,000 workers could die before the World Cup in 2022.

Many people are shocked about the treatment of workers in Qatar. The ITUC said that what is at the World Cup building sites like modern-day slavery. The Nepalese ambassador to Qatar, Maya Kumari Sharma, the country was like "an open jail" for workers. Aidan McQuade, director of Anti-Slavery International, said the World Cup is built slave labour. Qatar's government also it was shocked. A spokesperson said: "There no excuse for any worker in Qatar to be in this manner. The health, safety, well-being and dignity of every worker that to the 2022 FIFA World Cup is of the utmost importance."