Kanye West, 8 employees sue him over alleged hostile workplace and unpaid wages

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The rapper is being sued by several employees who want damages for creating an inhumane, hostile work environment and failing to pay them, and his wife Bianca Censori, who was not investigated, sent pornographic material to staff.

Kanye West can’t stay out of trouble. On the day that the Russian media reported on his visit to Moscow complete with a visit to Red Square and a stay at the Four Seasons, the news spread in the United States that the rapper, who calls himself Ye, has been sued by some. employees who are asking him for damages for creating an inhumane, hostile work environment and for not paying them, and his wife Bianca Censori sent pornographic material to staff. TMZ has seen court papers naming West and Milo Yiannopoulos, former chief of staff for the rapper’s company, YZY, as defendants in the lawsuit. The two are accused of making false promises of payment to adult and minor employees and forcing them to work excessive hours, while openly joking with racist jokes and being called “new slaves”.

Wife Bianca Censori is not among the defendants

Although the allegations also concern Censors, his wife is not among the accused. It all started in the spring of this year, when Ye decided to launch a music streaming app to promote his new albums independently from other platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. For his first tech startup, West hired a group of developers from around the world, including kids as young as 14 years old. These new hires worked mostly remotely, staying in constant communication with Ye, Milo, and the rest of the team via Discord, Zoom, and Slack. It is in the conversations of these applications that the evidence that gives rise to the cause remained in print: emojis of black or brown faces sent to black employees, a minor called a “school shooter”, and the continuous use of racist and negative language in respect employees in relation to. of their age, race, gender, sexual orientation and origin, by the mostly white managers who coordinated the work from the headquarters in Calabasas, north of Los Angeles.

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Volunteer agreement for minors

In April, Yiannopoulos promised to pay the developers $120,000 upon completion of the app. Instead minors had to sign a voluntary agreement. At the end of the same month, Ye also announced the launch of an X-rated production company called Yeezy Porn, which TMZ reported sought the advice of industry veteran Mike Moz, Donald Trump’s ex-husband, Stormy Daniels accuser. To “encourage” the workers in this new venture, which America’s most controversial rapper had dreamed of for a long time, his wife Bianca Censori sent a worker a file-sharing link with hard videos, which minors could see also. After a period of non-stop work, the developer team delivered an application on May 1st. But the payments have not started. The complaint was then filed, filed in court and initiated a lawsuit for compensation for unpaid wages and overtime and emotional damages.

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