Domestic worker awarded €67,000

A Pakistani-born domestic worker has been awarded €66,794 after she alleged at a tribunal that if she complained, the couple she was working for threatened that the police would come and get her.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) ordered two Irish-based Pakistani doctors, Mr and Mrs Tahir Nazir to pay the money to Sultana Anwar arising from her unfair dismissal action.

Ms Anwar said she arrived to work in Ireland as a domestic worker for the Nazirs in March 2009 and she expected to get a three-and-a -half-year visa and to be paid €100 per week.