Restaurants pay migrants as little as €2 per hour, survey finds

THE Migrants Rights Centre of Ireland (MRCI) has claimed foreign- national restaurant workers are being paid as little as €2 per hour while working up to 75 hours of week.

From July 2007 to July 2008, MRCI carried out 115 one-hour surveys with migrant workers employed in restaurants in Ireland. Of those workers, 67% had work permits, 14% were undocumented, 7% were EU nationals, 5% had student visas and 5% were stamp 4 residents (entitled to work without a permit).

The results of that survey found: