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corpuscollossus posted:Changes to the Kafala system are to be announced in a press conference this afternoon. If you wanted to watch the E:60 piece on Kafala, btw, it's up here: http://bluefoottv.com/projects/e60-qatars-world-cup/
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Was Taters posted:If you wanted to watch the E:60 piece on Kafala, btw, it's up here: http://bluefoottv.com/projects/e60-qatars-world-cup/ I'll do that while indulging in some light cutting.
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corpuscollossus posted:Result of the press conference: Things will definitely change from the Kafala system to a new system that we call something else as soon as we get the committee to submit their recommendations to the cabinet for approval. Deadline to be confirmed. Are you literally trapped in Qatar?
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:Are you literally trapped in Qatar? More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses.
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Quatar will never change. It is run be incredibly greedy men who have no sense of morality. Get out if you are not a literal slave.
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May 14, 2014 16:05
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Hang in there, the famous Qatari sense of justice for all and the Rule of Law will save you. This is sarcasm, get out before you're actually stuck.
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May 14, 2014 16:12
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Get out before they stick you in jail for being a poor foreigner.
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Have you considered leading a slave uprising?
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Get out and never look back
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Get out and never look back This for fucks sake. If you think anything will change with the laughable checks and balances that Qatar has in place and the amount of money being thrown around you are delusional.
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May 14, 2014 17:13
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I can't believe there's a poster on these forums literally trapped in Qatar. Get the hell out man, jeez!
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Blue Screen Error posted:Have you considered leading a slave uprising? This IMO
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May 14, 2014 17:21
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Bogan Krkic posted:I can't believe there's a poster on these forums literally trapped in Qatar. Get the hell out man, jeez! Yeah, I didn't realize that's where you were and I hope that post didn't come off as a taunt, corpuscollossus.
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Dravs posted:Quatar will never change. It is run be incredibly greedy men who have no sense of morality. Get out if you are not a literal slave. It's run by Daniel Levy? Haha just kidding, these human rights abuses are bad.
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Blue Screen Error posted:Have you considered leading a slave uprising? I hadn't OP Jermaine Dildoe posted:Get out and never look back Just as soon as I level up with the bank. Heh.
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May 14, 2014 17:39
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corpuscollossus posted:I hadn't OP You have my backing 100% I'll retweet whatever you need
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Are you retarded?? Why the gently caress wouldn't you be on the first plane outta there loving hell
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Blue Screen Error posted:You have my backing 100% I'll retweet whatever you need #iamcorpuscollossus
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Blue Screen Error posted:You have my backing 100% I'll retweet whatever you need I will retweet but I don't like bananas so I won't eat one and instagram it, sorry.
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Byolante posted:I will retweet but I don't like bananas so I won't eat one and instagram it, sorry. you're supposed to instagram kebab
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"In light of the apparently unusually high levels of heart attacks, it calls for an independent study into sudden cardiac arrests over the next three years and for there to be proper investigation into unexpected or sudden deaths." Yes, three more years of "sudden" heart attacks should give us a baseline to launch a subcommittee on investigating the cause
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Look, if we get three, maybe four more thousand fatalities we are gonna really start taking this poo poo by the horns.
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Seriously, get out while you still can. You can either be at home with nothing or in Qatar with nothing. DO you have your passport in your possesion? If so just pull a loving runner. edit: YOu have been keeping records of all the bullshit right? Just in case you need to explain things to future employers/authorities.
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corpuscollossus posted:More of a Catch 22. My employer is extorting me under the threat of deportation to work at half the market wage while I slowly bleed to bankruptcy with rising rent and school fees. Salaries are paid in bits and pieces. I can either head home with nothing or hope that the law changes and step into a job that pays more than double. I should probably just cut my losses. Seriously get to your nearest consulate and don't leave it without a flight back home.
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A brief overview of the changes: • The Qatar Chamber of Commerce (strongly opposed to any change) have to make recommendations and amends to the proposal before it gets approved by cabinet. • Employers no longer issue exit permits. You apply for an exit permit on a government website, and your employer has 72 hours to block you leaving. • The kafala system has been 'scrapped'. Now there's an employer/employee contract, where an employee can leave at the end of the contract. Employers are allowed to give open-ended contracts, in which case the employee can leave after 5 years. • You are no longer banned from Qatar for 2 years after leaving employment. So nothing has changed e: http://dohanews.co/expats-express-disappointment-proposed-labor-law-changes/ corpuscollossus fucked around with this message at 11:58 on May 15, 2014 |
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corpuscollossus posted:A brief overview of the changes: What a piece of poo poo country.
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Ha, an employee is "allowed" to leave a contract after 5 years. That changes literally nothing. The good news is that you now apply to the government to be allowed to leave the country! The bad news is it's all online so you don't actually interact with any officials to help with the process and your employer can arbitrarily block it. I guess it gives the odd person the chance to sneak an exit visa if they can distract their employer for 3 days and actually get access to an internet enabled computer and navigate to the correct site and correctly apply for this exit visa in a language they probably do not even speak let alone are literate in.
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corpuscollossus posted:A brief overview of the changes: run to an embassy and apply for refugee status Any embassy. I'm not joking.
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corpuscollossus posted:A brief overview of the changes: If you are still in this country by Monday I'm going to assume that you are okay with being trapped there forever.
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Der Shovel posted:Didn't the oval office run unopposed last time with the excuse that it was his last go? Late but I wanted to post these   Now let's get back to trying to rescue a TRP poster from indentured slavery in a desert shithole toilet
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Stop posting about it here they're literally reading along over your shoulder in the Gulf m8
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Koesj posted:Stop posting about it here they're literally reading along over your shoulder in the Gulf m8 There's enough outrage and vitriol about this all over that this is fine (probably). Provided you don't name names or make threats you're ok. As for leaving, there's no way until my contract is up. Embassies won't help unless you're in serious poo poo (the British embassy wouldn't give any assistance to a mate who was arrested on completely spurious charges in Oman and had to sleep rough for two months), and besides being painted into a corner here I'm worse off back home. If I were single and childless I'd have left three years ago.
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El Hefe posted:The UK and the US are as much to blame as Qatar for letting this poo poo happen. Don't post in this thread please
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corpuscollossus posted:There's enough outrage and vitriol about this all over that this is fine (probably). Provided you don't name names or make threats you're ok. As for leaving, there's no way until my contract is up. Embassies won't help unless you're in serious poo poo (the British embassy wouldn't give any assistance to a mate who was arrested on completely spurious charges in Oman and had to sleep rough for two months), and besides being painted into a corner here I'm worse off back home. If I were single and childless I'd have left three years ago. You brought your children to Qatar You actually loving did that Jesus christ man find an excuse good enough for the embassy and get them out at least.
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