Report by Egreenews Staff
The 2026 FIFA World Cup arrives in Atlanta in June 2026, bringing an expected 500,000 visitors to the city for eight matches, including a semifinal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The tournament will create thousands of temporary jobs in food service, custodial work, outdoor vending, hospitality, and security support. Many of these positions will be filled by workers drawn from populations already experiencing economic precarity: immigrant women, female teenagers entering the labor market for the first time, pregnant workers, homeless women, and undocumented laborers.
Atlanta is a useful laboratory for understanding how a major U.S. host city approaches vulnerable-worker protections during a mega-event. The city sits in a state with a right-to-work law, no state-level heat illness standard, an E-Verify mandate for many employers, and a mixed record on pregnancy accommodation legislation. The city government, led by Mayor Andre Dickens, has released a detailed Human Rights Action Plan adopted through City Council Resolution 26-R-3106. A coalition of labor and civil rights organizations, Play Fair ATL, has publicly challenged the adequacy of that plan. This report examines what Atlanta is doing — and what it is not doing — to educate and protect the most vulnerable women in its World Cup workforce.
Heat, Health, and the Physical Work Environment
The most immediate physical risk to outdoor workers — food vendors, custodial staff, ticket takers, and logistics personnel — is extreme heat. June and July temperatures in Atlanta routinely exceed 32°C (90°F), with high humidity amplifying the physiological strain. A 2026 study in Science of the Total Environment modeled wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) across all 2026 host cities. The study found that hot, humid locations such as Atlanta frequently reach WBGT levels near or above safety thresholds for moderate-to-heavy workloads during the tournament window. [University of Waterloo/PubMed, Canada, 2026]
Pregnant workers face compounded risk. The CDC notes that people who work outdoors are more likely to become dehydrated and get heat-related illness, and NIOSH recommends that employers provide water, rest, shade, and acclimatization protocols. [CDC, United States, 2025] A 2023 NIH study found that high occupational heat exposure was associated with more than double the risk of adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes (aOR 2.3; 95% CI 1.4–3.8). [PubMed/NIH, United States, 2023]
Georgia has no state-level heat illness prevention standard. The federal OSHA proposed heat standard — which would require employers to provide water, rest breaks, shade, and acclimatization protocols — has not been finalized as of May 2026. In Georgia, HR 393, a resolution urging the General Assembly to enact the Workplace Safety and Heat Protection Act, was introduced in the House in February 2025 and has not passed. [Georgia General Assembly, United States, 2025]
The OSHA Atlanta regional office has issued reminders to Southeast employers about heat dangers, recommending water every 15 minutes, frequent rest breaks, and emergency planning. These are recommendations, not enforceable mandates. [OSHA, United States, 2022]
The city’s ATL26 Human Rights Action Plan commits to “safe workplaces” under its Workers’ Rights pillar, with a $17.50/hour minimum wage for FIFA-related employment coordinated by the city. The publicly available plan summary does not include a specific heat protocol for outdoor workers, nor does it mention pregnancy-specific accommodations for heat exposure. [City of Atlanta, United States, 2026]
Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, through its Climate and Health Actionable Research Translation (CHART) initiative, has documented increasing extreme heat in metro Atlanta, noting that how hot it actually feels depends on where you are in the city. [Emory University, United States, 2026] The data on the extent to which stadium-adjacent microclimates have been assessed for worker heat risk are incomplete.
Anti-Trafficking Efforts: Structure, Gaps, and the Labor Trafficking Blind Spot
Human trafficking has been the dominant concern in public discourse around Atlanta’s World Cup preparations. The city has built a multi-layered anti-trafficking apparatus. The Mayor’s Office of Violence Reduction, in partnership with the Atlanta Alliance Against Trafficking Taskforce, leads the city’s anti-human trafficking strategy for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and beyond. The effort unites survivor-centered care, prevention, enforcement, and cross-sector collaboration. [City of Atlanta, United States, 2026]
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has launched specialized, scenario-based training for airport employees in partnership with the nonprofit Rescuing Hope. The airport also planned an Anti-Human Trafficking Summit for June 8, 2026, bringing together advocates, survivors, educators, law enforcement, and community stakeholders. [FOX 5 Atlanta, United States, 2026]
In May 2026, the city joined the global “It’s a Penalty” campaign, targeting awareness among fans and frontline workers — airport employees, hotel staff, ride-hail drivers, and hospitality workers. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, United States, 2026]
A significant gap persists. The anti-trafficking strategy, as publicly described, emphasizes sex trafficking awareness. A January 2026 analysis noted that statewide statistics show at least a quarter of trafficking victims in Georgia are exploited for their labor, and that many victims of sex trafficking are also victims of labor trafficking. “One-third of trafficking victims are overlooked in Atlanta’s World Cup plan,” the analysis concluded, because the plan focuses on sex trafficking while evidence points to forced labor as a notable risk. [Human Trafficking Search, United States, 2026]
The Play Fair ATL coalition has made this same critique. The coalition’s 16-page policy platform, released in December 2025, argues for stronger worker rights safeguards and points out that subcontracted workers in food service, custodial roles, and merchandise supply chains face elevated labor trafficking risk with minimal oversight. [Play Fair ATL/Laborwise, United States, 2025]
Atlanta’s plan for preventing human trafficking includes training for over 1,000 individuals across business and community tracks, as well as a public awareness campaign. The question of whether this training adequately addresses labor trafficking indicators — unpaid wages, passport confiscation, debt bondage, unsafe working conditions — as distinct from the signs of sexual exploitation, remains open and contested.
Institutional Capacity vs. On-the-Ground Reality
The distance between formal policy commitments and verifiable implementation is the central tension in Atlanta’s approach.
The ATL26 Human Rights Action Plan is a substantive document, built through over 75 hours of community engagement with more than 25 organizations, and formally adopted by City Council. Its four pillars — Inclusion and Safeguarding, Workers’ Rights, Access to Remedy and Accountability — cover a broad spectrum of human rights considerations. The plan includes a $17.50/hour baseline wage for city-coordinated FIFA-related employment, wage theft prevention, small business readiness, and workforce development. [City of Atlanta, United States, 2026]
But the plan has drawn sharp criticism. Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch noted in April 2026 that “none of these so-called human rights action plans even mentions the word ICE.” [NPR/WABE, United States, 2026] Mayor Andre Dickens has publicly stated that the city has no control over federal immigration enforcement during the tournament. ICE raids have already occurred in Atlanta in the lead-up to the World Cup. [NPR/WABE, United States, 2026]
The Play Fair ATL coalition, which includes the Georgia AFL-CIO, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, and the Union of Southern Service Workers, has demanded a $26 minimum wage, hiring preferences for underserved communities, and the city’s refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement during the tournament. [Play Fair ATL/Laborwise, United States, 2025]
Play Fair ATL director Michael Collins captured the coalition’s concern: “Our main concern is that we end up with a World Cup that is built on the backs of poor and low-income people to benefit the wealthy folks and corporate invested interests in the city.” [Play Fair ATL/Laborwise, United States, 2025]
The city’s enforcement mechanisms remain under development. The plan includes a grievance mechanism for those who believe their rights have been violated, but the operational details of that mechanism — who adjudicates complaints, what timeline applies, what remedies are available — have not been publicly specified.
Homeless Women: Housing Stability and Employment
Atlanta’s approach to homelessness ahead of the World Cup is one of the most concrete interventions among all host cities. The Downtown Rising program, operated by Partners for Home, aimed to place 400 unsheltered people into stable housing before the tournament. As of April 2026, the program had housed more than 450 people, surpassing its goal. The program includes wraparound services: mental health support, rent assistance, job search help, and life skills training. [Partners for Home/CBS News, United States, 2026]
One formerly homeless woman profiled in local media, Letha Eberhardt, now works security at stadiums and uses that income to pay her bills. Her pathway — from unsheltered homelessness to stadium employment — illustrates both the potential and the fragility of the model. [Atlanta News First, United States, 2026]
Critics of Downtown Rising note that the program’s rapid housing placement does not automatically translate into stable, adequately compensated employment. Some individuals who declined housing offers were warned that arrests could result from a continued presence in downtown encampments. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that a judge had acknowledged the possibility of arrests for those who refuse the city’s housing offers. [AJC, United States, 2025]
For homeless women specifically — a population that includes survivors of domestic violence, sexual exploitation, and trauma — the data on World Cup-related employment outcomes are essentially absent. No publicly available tracking mechanism has been established to determine how many Downtown Rising participants secure tournament-related employment, what wages they earn, or what working conditions they experience.
6. Pregnant Workers: Federal Protections and State-Level Uncertainty
Pregnant women working in outdoor, food service, or janitorial roles at World Cup venues face a specific set of risks — heat stress, prolonged standing, heavy lifting — that intersect with a complex and evolving legal landscape.
At the federal level, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), enacted in 2022 and implemented through EEOC regulations, requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. Accommodations can include more frequent breaks, seating, modified work schedules, and temporary reassignment. [EEOC, United States, 2023]
Georgia, however, is one of seventeen states that challenged the EEOC’s PWFA regulations in court, specifically objecting to the inclusion of abortion as a “related medical condition.” The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February 2025 that the states have standing to challenge the rule. [8th Circuit Court of Appeals, United States, 2025] Georgia’s own Pregnancy Protection Act (SB 283), which would have created a state-level duty to accommodate pregnant workers, was introduced in the 2023-2024 legislative session and died in committee. [Georgia General Assembly, United States, 2024]
The result is a gap. Federal PWFA protections remain in effect, but the state’s legal challenge creates uncertainty. No city-level or tournament-specific policy addresses pregnancy accommodations for temporary World Cup workers. The ATL26 Human Rights Action Plan does not include pregnancy-specific heat protocols, rest-break guarantees, or dedicated health access for pregnant stadium or event workers.
An Emory University study on occupational heat exposure among undocumented immigrants receiving hemodialysis documented the impacts of working in high-heat conditions on kidney health, noting that outdoor workers such as construction workers and landscapers face distinct risks that require further investigation. [Emory University, United States, 2024] Pregnant workers in these same environments face the additional risks documented in the broader NIH literature — elevated core body temperature, reduced placental blood flow, and inflammatory responses that may trigger preterm birth. [PubMed/NIH, United States, 2022]
Female Teenagers: Youth Employment and Protections
Female teenagers entering the tournament workforce — whether as vendors, hospitality staff, or event support — fall under Georgia’s child labor laws. Youth must be at least 14 years old to work in Georgia. Minors aged 14 and 15 are restricted to working between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. during school weeks, and between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. during non-school weeks, with a maximum of 3 hours on a school day and 8 hours on a non-school day. Minors aged 16 and 17 face no hour restrictions, except that they cannot be required to work during school hours. All minors under 18 must obtain an employment certificate (work permit) before commencing employment. [Georgia Department of Labor, United States, 2025]
The tournament’s June-July schedule coincides with Georgia’s non-school weeks, meaning 14- and 15-year-olds can work until 9 p.m. and up to 8 hours per day. The World Cup matches will run into late evening, potentially creating tension between youth labor protections and event staffing demands.
The city’s plan includes youth-focused legacy initiatives. The “Moving Her Forward Capstone” is a virtual leadership experience for girls and youth across FIFA World Cup 2026 host countries, connected to UNICEF USA’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. This program focuses on leadership development and civic engagement, not on workplace safety training for teens who will be working at the event. [City of Atlanta/Atlanta Tribune, United States, 2026]
No host city plan reviewed for this report includes a dedicated youth-worker education or protection module specific to the tournament context. The data on how many female teenagers will be employed, in what roles, and with what safety training, are not publicly available.
Immigrant and Undocumented Women: A Patchwork of Protections and Vulnerabilities
Immigrant women — documented and undocumented — are expected to fill many of the tournament’s service-sector jobs. Georgia’s legal framework creates specific vulnerabilities. The state requires many employers to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm workers’ immigration status, limiting job opportunities for undocumented individuals. [Serving Immigrants, United States, 2025]
Georgia law does provide some protections. Undocumented workers are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits under the Georgia Workers’ Compensation Act. Courts have ruled that immigration status does not change the right to medical care or wage benefits, and employers cannot use a workers’ compensation claim or citizenship status as grounds for termination. [Hines Law Firm, United States, 2026]
The enforcement gap is wide. A 2022 Atlanta Journal-Constitution report documented that undocumented workers in Georgia often do not know their rights and are unlikely to turn to law enforcement in the face of abuse, creating conditions for exploitation. [AJC, United States, 2022]
The Play Fair ATL coalition has pushed the city to adopt a policy of non-cooperation with federal immigration enforcement during the tournament. The city has not adopted such a policy. Mayor Dickens has stated that the city is coordinating with consulates of participating countries to support international visitors, but that he has no control over ICE. [NPR/WABE, United States, 2026]
The Randstad partnership with the city and Hartsfield-Jackson Airport represents one model of engagement. Randstad’s Hire Hope program has assisted over 1,000 individuals who have experienced human trafficking, homelessness, and domestic violence, and the company is expanding its efforts to pipeline talent from vulnerable populations into its client ecosystem. [Randstad, United States, 2026] The extent to which this program reaches undocumented women is not clear from available data.
Partnerships: The Cross-Sector Ecosystem
Atlanta’s approach relies on a network of partnerships spanning city government, corporations, nonprofits, and labor organizations. The key institutional actors include:
- City of Atlanta — Mayor’s Office of One Atlanta: Led development of the ATL26 Human Rights Action Plan and coordinates legacy initiatives. Chief Impact Officer Candace Stanciel oversees implementation.
- Mayor’s Office of Violence Reduction (MOVR): Leads the anti-human trafficking strategy in partnership with the Atlanta Alliance Against Trafficking Taskforce.
- Mayor’s Office of International and Immigrant Affairs: Participated in the plan’s development; coordinates with consulates.
- Atlanta Department of Labor and Employment Services: Contributed to the plan; role in enforcement is not publicly specified.
- Partners for Home: Nonprofit implementing the Downtown Rising housing program, which has placed over 450 homeless individuals into stable housing.
- Play Fair ATL Coalition: Includes Georgia AFL-CIO, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Southern Center for Human Rights, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), Union of Southern Service Workers, and Freedom United. Released a 16-page policy platform demanding stronger protections.
- Randstad: Global staffing firm partnering with the city on anti-trafficking efforts and survivor employment through the Hire Hope program.
- Rescuing Hope: Nonprofit providing specialized, scenario-based anti-trafficking training to airport employees.
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: Implementing anti-trafficking training and awareness campaigns for airport employees.
- AMB Sports and Entertainment: Operates Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The publicly available plan does not specify AMB’s commitments regarding vulnerable-worker protections.
- Emory University — Rollins School of Public Health: Through the CHART initiative, has documented metro Atlanta’s increasing extreme heat and its uneven geographic distribution.
The partnership between Randstad and the city illustrates a model of corporate engagement. Floss Aggrey, Chief Inclusion and Access Officer at Randstad, stated: “When we invest in survivors, we are not just filling jobs; we are restoring lives. Escaping trafficking is only the first step. To achieve true economic mobility, we must work together to dismantle the barriers on paper that prevent survivors from regaining their independence and building a future.” [Randstad, United States, 2026]
Evidence Gaps and Next Steps
Atlanta has produced a more detailed and publicly accessible Human Rights Action Plan than most 2026 host cities. The plan includes concrete commitments: a $17.50/hour minimum wage for city-coordinated FIFA-related employment, anti-trafficking training for over 1,000 individuals, homelessness housing targets that have been exceeded, and youth legacy programming.
Substantial gaps remain. Heat protection for outdoor workers is addressed through federal OSHA recommendations that are not enforceable mandates. Georgia has no state-level heat standard. The proposed federal OSHA heat rule remains unfinalized. Pregnant workers are not mentioned in any publicly available tournament-specific worker protection document.
The anti-trafficking strategy emphasizes sex trafficking awareness at the expense of labor trafficking prevention. Academic and advocacy sources consistently identify labor trafficking in service supply chains as the more prevalent risk at mega-events, yet the city’s public messaging and training priorities do not reflect this evidence.
Immigrant and undocumented women face the widest gap between formal legal protections and practical enforceability. Georgia law entitles undocumented workers to workers’ compensation, but fear of immigration enforcement deters reporting of workplace injuries and exploitation. The city has not adopted the non-cooperation policy with ICE that advocacy groups have demanded.
The Downtown Rising program represents a tangible success in housing placement, but the connection between housing stability and safe, adequately compensated tournament employment has not been systematically tracked.
Female teenagers are covered by Georgia’s child labor laws, which impose hour restrictions on 14- and 15-year-olds but leave 16- and 17-year-olds largely unrestricted outside of school hours. No youth-specific workplace safety module has been developed for the tournament context.
The data that will be needed to assess Atlanta’s performance — post-tournament data on wages, workplace injuries, heat-related illness, trafficking reports, and employment outcomes for homeless and immigrant women — do not yet exist. Whether the city will collect and publish such data is not clear from its plan.
3 Questions for Further Research
- What were the actual working conditions — including hours, wages, heat exposure, and incident reporting — for women employed in temporary World Cup-related roles in Atlanta, and how did outcomes differ for immigrant, pregnant, homeless, and teen workers?
- To what extent did Atlanta’s anti-trafficking training and enforcement reach labor trafficking in hospitality, food service, and custodial supply chains, as distinct from sex trafficking awareness campaigns?
- What measurable employment outcomes — job retention, wage levels, health incidents — resulted from the Downtown Rising housing program and the Randstad Hire Hope pipeline for homeless women and trafficking survivors?
4 Key Takeaways
- Atlanta’s ATL26 Human Rights Action Plan is among the most detailed of any 2026 host city, with a $17.50/hour baseline wage for city-coordinated FIFA employment and anti-trafficking training for over 1,000 individuals.
- Georgia has no enforceable state-level heat illness prevention standard for outdoor workers; the federal OSHA proposed heat rule remains unfinalized, leaving workers dependent on voluntary employer compliance.
- The city’s anti-trafficking strategy emphasizes sex trafficking awareness, while evidence from Georgia statewide statistics shows that at least one quarter of trafficking victims are exploited for their labor — a gap identified by both advocacy groups and academic sources.
- Pregnant workers, homeless women, undocumented women, and female teenagers are largely invisible in the publicly available portions of the city’s planning documents, despite being among the populations most likely to fill temporary tournament roles.
Evidence suggests that city governments may strengthen protections for vulnerable women workers by attaching enforceable labor standards — including heat illness prevention protocols, pregnancy accommodation requirements, minimum wage floors, and anti-retaliation provisions — as contractual conditions for all vendors, contractors, and subcontractors operating at tournament venues and fan zones. Such conditions may be most effective when accompanied by designated funding for independent compliance monitoring and multilingual worker education.
2026 World Cup Venues: Food Desert & Heat Island Burden for Nearby Residents
1 = most acute combined challenge; 16 = least acute
- Atlanta – Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Vine City/English Avenue: USDA low-income low-access tract; car-dependent; intense urban heat; Cool Roofs ordinance a partial buffer. - Kansas City – Arrowhead Stadium
Eastern neighborhoods: high poverty, “blighted food desert” framing; state grocery tax credit newly enacted; heat mapping underway. - Philadelphia – Lincoln Financial Field
South Philadelphia: historically redlined, dual heat/food insecurity; 12°F intra-city heat disparity; Fresh Food Financing Initiative pending. - Houston – NRG Stadium
Paved lots and highways raise land surface temperatures up to 20°F; high social vulnerability; state law preempts local worker heat protections. - Inglewood – SoFi Stadium
Rapid gentrification after stadium; barren immediate surroundings; state food desert grants exist but car dependence limits access. - Miami Gardens – Hard Rock Stadium
Top-3 U.S. urban heat island intensity; state preempts municipal heat ordinances; small-footprint grocery store zoning incentives authorized. - Mexico City – Estadio Azteca
Informal vendor network critical; FIFA security perimeter may displace food sources; urban heat island recently incorporated into law. - Monterrey – Estadio BBVA
High heat stress risk for athletes; informal food economy; no systematic stadium-adjacent food access study available. - Guadalajara – Estadio Akron
Metro area deficient in green space; spatial heat risk modeled; informal vendors key to food availability. - Arlington – AT&T Stadium
Extensive parking limits residential adjacency; older eastern neighborhoods have amplified heat; state preemption of local protections. - Seattle – Lumen Field
Citywide “food swamp” pattern; utility-level heat mitigation encouraged; heat island mapping ongoing. - Santa Clara – Levi’s Stadium
Stadium has rooftop farm but few walkable amenities outside; land value rises noted; county heat campaign completed. - Toronto – BMO Field
Exhibition Place, waterfront; city targets zero heat deaths by 2040; maximum-temperature bylaw stalled; food access varies by neighborhood. - Vancouver – BC Place
East Vancouver and Downtown Eastside identified as food retail priority zones; provincial density bills interact with heat goals. - East Rutherford – MetLife Stadium
Meadowlands complex has virtually no residential population immediately adjacent; nearest burden is in Newark. - Foxborough – Gillette Stadium
Affluent suburban town; Patriot Place provides on-site food; state heat and food policies target urban cores, not this area.
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