Child minder awarded €41k over racial discrimination

THE Equality Tribunal has awarded a South African worker more than €41,000 in compensation after ruling that she was racially discriminated against by the Dublin widower who hired her as a child minder.

The father-of-three from Castleknock in Dublin, who has not been named, was found to have breached the Employment Equality Act in both the conditions of her employment and the manner in which he fired the woman in March 2008.

The woman claimed she was recruited by the Irishman during a visit to South Africa in 2007. She was paid €200 per week on the basis of working 70 hours over a six-day week.