A Fifa sub-committee report on Qatar's 2022 World Cup legacy said soccer's world governing body has a responsibility to compensate migrant workers but the organisation has not acted on a recommendation to do that by using its legacy fund.

The report prepared by the Fifa Sub-Committee on Human Rights and Social Responsibility looked into a request made at the Fifa Congress by the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF), who asked what steps Fifa might take to compensate workers.

Fifa launched a US$50 million (S$67 million) legacy fund this week for social programmes but was criticised by Amnesty International for not doing anything for families of migrant workers who died or were exploited when building Qatar's stadiums for the World Cup.

The Middle Eastern country has denied that workers were exploited.

"There are workers who have contributed to the resounding success of the Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 who have not yet benefited from any, or any adequate, remediation," said the report, which was published 11 months after it was submitted.

"Whilst the main responsibility to rectify such shortcomings lies with the direct employers of these workers as well as with the Government of Qatar... Fifa too has a responsibility to take additional measures to contribute to the provision of remedy to these workers."

The report said many "human rights impacts" occurred in Qatar from 2010-2022 for workers, including deaths, injuries, wages not being paid for months and debt faced by workers and their families reimbursing fees they paid to obtain jobs.

"The due diligence measures put in place by Fifa and its partners did not prevent these severe impacts from occurring," it added.

Fair compensation

"The report provides clear guidelines to Fifa on what constitutes effective and fair restitution to ensure migrant wo...