Pakistani chef sees €91k award restored

A Pakistani chef who was forced to work seven days a week for pocket money, with just Christmas day off, has had a €91,000 award against his employer restored by the Supreme Court.

Muhammad Younis, 59, worked up to 77 hours a week at his second cousin’s Poppadom restaurant in Newlands Cross, Dublin, for 51c an hour.

He left Pakistan in 2002 to come to Ireland to work as a tandoori chef for his cousin, Amjad Hussein. He did not speak English, he said.