“I earned no money,” said a 35-year-old Nepalese worker and father-of-three who said he had lost a year’s salary on the project. “If I had money to buy a ticket I would go home.”

…”We don’t know how much they are spending on the World Cup but we just need our salary,” one worker said after losing a year’s pay on the project. “We were working but not getting the salary. The government, the company: just provide the money.”