{"id":8318,"date":"2015-10-07T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/historic-caste-discrimination-case\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:17:57","slug":"historic-caste-discrimination-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/07\/historic-caste-discrimination-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Caste Discrimination Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victim Receives Record Payment<\/h3>\n

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\nAn Indian woman has been given thousands of pounds after a tribunal ruled her employers discriminated against her, based on her caste. In a ground-breaking judgment handed down by the Employment Tribunal upheld numerous claims, including those for unpaid wages and religious and race discrimination, brought by an Indian woman of low caste kept in domestic servitude by her employers for 4 \u00bd years. <\/p>\n


\nThe Tribunal found that Ms Tirkey was kept in domestic servitude and that the conditions and environment into which she was held was \u2018a clear violation of her dignity\u2019.<\/p>\n


\nMs Tirkey was born in Bihar, the poorest of the Indian states. Her family are Adivasi people who are dark skinned, poor and low caste. She is a Christian. The Tribunal found that Mr and Mrs Chandhok went to India to recruit Ms Tirkey, because \u2018they wanted someone who would be not merely of service but servile\u2019 and that they did not seek to recruit someone resident in the UK \u2018because no such person would have accepted the intended conditions of work.\u2019 <\/p>\n


\nThe Tribunal found Mr and Mrs Chandhok subjected Ms Tirkey to unacceptable working conditions. She worked 7 days per week 18 hours per day for 4.5 years. She was on call 24 hours a day. She was paid 11p an hour (the National Minimum Wage is currently \u00a36.50 per hour). She slept on the floor. She was prevented from bringing her Bible to the UK and from attending Church. She was not allowed to contact her family. They set up a bank account in her name which they controlled and used for their own benefit. <\/p>\n


\nUpon receiving judgment Ms Tirkey said, \u201cI want the public to know what happened to me as it must not happen to anyone else. The stress and anxiety that this sort of thing creates for a person can destroy them. I have not been able to smile because my life had been destroyed. Now I am able to smile again. Now I am free.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Legal Aid Agency refused to fund Ms Tirkey\u2019s representation for 17 months. They suggested that Ms Tirkey\u2019s case was not of \u201csufficient importance or seriousness\u201d and that it was \u201conly a claim for money\u201d. They said that she could represent herself. This was a bar to Ms Tirkey pursuing her complaints as she would have faced the ordeal of cross examining the employers who had kept her in domestic servitude for years. It was only with relentless legal representation that funding was eventually secured. \n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victim Receives Record Payment An Indian woman has been given thousands of pounds after a tribunal ruled her employers discriminated against her, based on her caste. In a ground-breaking judgment handed down by the Employment Tribunal upheld numerous claims, including those for unpaid wages and religious and race discrimination, brought by an Indian woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}