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Being exploited!!!!

papahats · 2008-12-02 12:08:24

Hi all, does anybody know where to get info on reporting an employer for exploiting you? e.g. no pay slip, no contract.............. Just was watching the Prime Time investigates program last night and it got me thinking its not just immigrants who are/were being unfairly treated.

02-12-2008 12:08pm

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Hi all, does anybody know where to get info on reporting an employer for exploiting you? e.g. no pay slip, no contract.............. Just was watching the Prime Time investigates program last night and it got me thinking its not just immigrants who are/were being unfairly treated.

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#2 02-12-2008 1:48pm

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The NERA website provide information on employment rights, etc.

http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/

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#3 03-12-2008 1:27pm

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I was also watching the Prime Time Investigates programme, Slave Labour in Ireland on Monday night. The only other thread on boards I found about it was in the Motors forum, which mainly deals with truck drivers being overworked and underpaid.

I have a question about the rights of domestic workers in Ireland, wonder if anyone can help me here. In the programme they interviewed a live-in domestic help worker. In her work permit application her employer put down that she was working a 39 hour week. In reality she was working about 80 hours a week. Her weekly salary came to roughly the equivalent of the minimum wage for a 40 hour week. Obviously there is an allegation that she was being underpaid.

I'm wondering could her employer say as a defence that if the cost of her food and accomodation, which he provided, she was actually paid the minimum wage?

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