Alanis Morissette Nanny Lawsuit: Celeb Childcare Under Scrutiny
Grammy-award winning singer Alanis Morissette's nanny is telling the public, 'You Oughta Know' something about the allegedly excessively demanding work conditions at the singer/song-writer's household.
The Canadian pop singer-turned alternative rock star and her husband, Mario "Souleye" Treadway are facing a lawsuit from their former nanny, Bianca Cambeiro, who "alleges work abuses including long shifts without breaks and a lack of overtime pay" during her regular 12-hour shifts while caring for the couple's son, Ever, three to four days a week.
How much is Cambeiro seeking from the star?
She's reportedly seeking $130,000 ($30,000 in unpaid wages and $100,000 in damages), according to the Daily Mail in London.
In an earlier report, People said, "The documents state that Cambeiro, who started working for the couple in August 2011 at their Brentwood, Calif., home for $25 an hour, asked Morissette's accountant in January 2012 why she wasn't being paid overtime, and he said, 'We don't do that.'"
Additionally, in the lawsuit, "Cambeiro claims she was prohibited from leaving the bedroom of the baby -- who was born on Christmas Day 2010 -- while the child was sleeping until and unless one of the parents were in the room or until the day shift nanny arrived to relieve her," People noted.
The Morissette nanny lawsuit comes into play as a bill was signed off on by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday that will temporarily require overtime pay for domestic workers in California.
"Under the new law, which takes effect in January, domestic workers must be paid time-and-a-half if they work more than nine hours in a day or more than 45 hours in a week. Baby sitters are exempt from the mandate," the Christian Science Monitor reported.
"Domestic workers are primarily women of color, many of them immigrants, and their work has not been respected in the past," the bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, said in a statement. "Now, they will be entitled to overtime, like just about every other California working person."