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Pilots at Qatar Airways say the state-owned airline is under-counting their work hours and ignoring complaints of fatigue - a safety breach that hurts staff health and risks passenger lives.
The testimony demonstrates how worker abuse extends even to the Gulf nation’s high-skill industries, as Qatar Airways (QA) tries to minimise crew downtime.
“This is obviously a huge health and safety issue for the pilots themselves - and the people they’re flying,” said Isobel Archer of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
Pilots at Qatar Airways say the state-owned airline is under-counting their work hours and ignoring complaints of fatigue - a safety breach that hurts staff health and risks passenger lives.
The testimony demonstrates how worker abuse extends even to the Gulf nation’s high-skill industries, as Qatar Airways (QA) tries to minimise crew downtime.
“This is obviously a huge health and safety issue for the pilots themselves - and the people they’re flying,” said Isobel Archer of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.