‘Aramco is selling our sweat and blood’: workers in World Cup sponsor’s supply chain faced safety risks, report fi

FairSquare report claims migrant workers injured in Saudi Arabia received no compensation, including one who says his legs were crushed Lying in a hospital bed in Saudi Arabia, his legs encased in plaster casts, Shrawan Shah Rauniyar clung to the hope that at least he would be fairly compensated. After all, when his legs were crushed under a giant metal beam that fell off a forklift, he was working on a project belonging to one of the most profitable companies in the world: Saudi Aramco. Rauniyar, a migrant worker from Nepal, was not employed directly by the state-owned energy company, but like tens of thousands of other migrant workers in the Gulf kingdom, he worked for a small labour supply company, which sent him to work on a project managed by the Italian firm Saipem, which in turn was contracted to Aramco. When staff from Saipem came to visit him in hospital, they brought him some flowers, chocolates and a blunt message. “Don’t ask us about compensation. We don’t know about it. You’re a contract worker for us. Talk to your employer,” Rauniyar alleges. But the labour supply company appeared in a hurry to wash its hands of him. Men from the company came to threaten Rau

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