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

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