Migrant restaurant worker gets €116k

A DUBLIN restaurant has been ordered to pay a migrant worker €116,000 compensation for gross breaches in employment law, it emerged yesterday.

The Pakistan man, who was forced to work in appalling conditions for five years, earned just €150 per week — of which €100 was deducted by the employer for his accommodation.

The worker told the Labour Relations Commission he had virtually no days off and his employer held his passport and threatened him with revoking his work permit and deportation if he complained.