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'I was a servant for 拢50 a month'

A woman recruited from India to be a domestic servant for a family in the UK and paid 11p an hour has been awarded almost 拢184,000 in unpaid wages. In a groundbreaking case, an employment tribunal found that 39-year-old Permila Tirkey was chosen by Pooja and Ajay Chandhok and discriminated against because of her "low caste". The tribunal was told she worked 18-hour days, having been recruited because her employers wanted someone "servile". It upheld a number of claims against the Chandoks. Our legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman has been talking to Permila Tirkey about her four and a half years working as a servant. She started by describing her working day.

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