Kanye West sued for $1m by ex-employee who claims he was pressured to work in harmful situations and sleep on the ground for months

Kanye West is being sued by a former worker who claims he was pressured to work in harmful situations and sleep on the ground of a property the rapper was renovating.

Tony Saxon claims he’s owed $1m (£800,000) in unpaid wages and lack of earnings after working as a venture supervisor, full-time safety, and live-in caretaker on the home in Malibu.

According to the lawsuit filed within the Los Angeles Superior court docket, West, who has legally modified his title to “Ye“, illegally fired Saxon after he refused to adjust to the rapper’s “dangerous” calls for.

The lawsuit alleges that Saxon was employed by Ye in September 2021 as a venture supervisor who would additionally function full-time safety on the multimillion-dollar beachfront property.

Alongside these roles, his duties would come with overseeing construction-related duties, together with cleansing, demolition, hiring contractors and coordinating staff.

Ye had reportedly purchased the house for greater than $55m (£44m) after which proceeded to have it stripped out to start an intensive rework.

As a results of the property being gutted, based on the lawsuit, Saxon spent the whole thing of his employment “sleeping in makeshift conditions, finding empty spaces on the ground and using his coat as a makeshift bedding”.

These situations allegedly endured regardless of “constant complaints” from Saxon about his sleeping situations and different hazards together with staff “unsafely demolishing various parts of the house with no safety equipment”.

Saxon claims he was promised fee of $20,000 (£16,000) per week, however after round a month later he had solely acquired one $20,000 fee for his providers together with $100,000 (£80,000) for development prices, based on the criticism.

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On 22 October 2021, based on the lawsuit, Saxon complained that he was “exhausted” from the lengthy hours and wanted time to relaxation however was ignored by Ye. Shortly after, he claims, he badly injured his again whereas working however his requests for break day have been once more ignored.

On 5 November 2021 after Ye had as soon as once more allegedly ignored Saxon’s requests for break day, the rapper is alleged to have demanded all of the remaining electrical tools and home windows be faraway from the property.

Saxon claims he refused on security grounds at which level, the lawsuit alleges, Ye threatened him earlier than telling him to “get the hell out” and finally fired him after he once more introduced up his unpaid wages.

Saxon’s lawyer, Ron Zambrano, stated: “Ye has shown a reckless disregard toward his employees and has flouted the law in unbelievably dangerous ways throughout this entire project at the Malibu house.

“No worker ought to need to endure by means of the kind of working situations Mr. Saxon was pressured to endure but Ye confirmed no concern and merely needed the work finished, regardless of the hazardous and unsafe, to not point out unlawful, actions he was making an attempt to power the plaintiff to undertake.”

This newest lawsuit comes after a number of different lately filed complaints in opposition to Ye and his Donda Academy Christian college in Southern California, which allege violations of labour legal guidelines and academic pointers, retaliatory practices, unsafe situations for college kids and mismanagement.

The rapper can be being sued by a photographer who accused him of grabbing her telephone and throwing it into the road.

Sky News have approached Ye’s representatives for remark.