Liz Hurley Is A Horrible Employer
I really dislike Liz Hurley so if you ever see her name anywhere in the blog, chances are that she has done something wrong or slightly wrong and I am exaggerating the hell out of it to make it even look worse. This one though doesn't even need any embellishing. Turns out Liz was supposed to go to court today for some employment violations, but she managed to get it settled so the whole world wouldn't know how bad she treats her employees.
Violet D'Souza is an Indian maid who has been working for the Hurley's for four years. In August, when she had been in the UK long enough to learn something and realized that she was getting screwed in wages and hours and everything else, she raised a fuss. She was promptly fired and another slave, I mean worker was brought over from India for the couple to exploit.
Violet would work seven days a week, every week for four years. She was on call 24 hours a day and as part of her duties was required to babysit, clean and cook. How much was she paid? She was paid $200 per week which according to records worked out to about $2.50 an hour. Currently the minimum wage in the UK is about $11 an hour.
Instead of just letting Liz and her "husband" settle, I think the tribunal should have stepped in and made Liz do the same jobs for the same pay for a month. That would have been much better. Instead, she probably paid this woman $20,000 or so to just go away.
Meanwhile in other trash Liz Hurley news. As far as I know she still has not kept her promise to the church where she got married. She and her "husband" were supposed to donate prayer benches in lieu of the cash they should have paid, but Liz and her husband have used every excuse in the book and really don't mind being called the worst people to live in the UK. I would nominate them for the worst people on earth actually, but serial killers and child abusers would have to come ahead of them so they wouldn't actually be the very worst people on earth. Pretty close though.
Oh, the photo above was not my first choice. I had a photo of Hugh Grant walking over to Liz's house today, but for some reason it would not upload. I don't know if her "husband" is out of town and Hugh is going over for a quickie, or if he wants to check out the new maid and see what she does for $2 an hour, but thought it was interesting.
