Your passport is the property of the government that issued it and they have entrusted it to you. Your employer has no right to hold it under Qatari law. Also, some employers provide a multiple exit pass, and with such you can leave the country at will with your passport
As for the employer being safer than you are, that's debatable. In the past 10 years there have been instances where entire company employees' passports have been "lost", stolen, or destroyed in fires or accidents from the companys' safety lockers.
Your passport is the property of the government that issued it and they have entrusted it to you. Your employer has no right to hold it under Qatari law. Also, some employers provide a multiple exit pass, and with such you can leave the country at will with your passport
As for the employer being safer than you are, that's debatable. In the past 10 years there have been instances where entire company employees' passports have been "lost", stolen, or destroyed in fires or accidents from the companys' safety lockers.
I prefer to keep my passport safe myself.