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Re: Slave Wages...
Don't they have minimum wages in Ireland then? If they took advantage of her being a foreigner, and deliberately underpaid her on the assumption she wouldn't know better, than that is exploitation and everyone needs the book thrown at them.
There is a fallacy though with the minimum wage though with regards to contracts, (and I think thats what she has got?).
If I agree to do something for someone for £10, on the assumption that it takes 1 hour, but it takes me 5 hours... that means I am being paid £2 an hour, and so I am being paid under minimum wage. Can I request a top-up and is the person paying me legally obliged to top me up to minimum wage £5/hr-ish?
The case isn't very well explained in that report though, the terminolgy is a bit wishy-washy. For example, "expected" isn't the same as "required".
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