Nursing home group defends giving different contracts to Irish and Indian care staff [Video]

AN INDIAN CARE worker was left “penniless and homeless” after a nursing home group cancelled his work and rental contracts following an inspection of his house while he was out of the country, a tribunal was told this week.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) heard this was compounded by his former employer deducting 25% of a recruitment agency’s fee, amounting to €562.50, from his final payslip – leaving him with a “zero balance” in his bank account.

Windmill Group, a healthcare company which operates nursing homes and residential properties across the country, carried out the eviction after finding an “unclean” kitchen and cabinets along with a damaged boiler at the house where four of its staff lived near its Killeline Care Centre in Newcastlewest, Co Limerick.

It removed three tenants, allegedly citing a concern that “adverse publicity” may be caused to the company following the inspection.

However, two of the …