Kanye West sued by former assistant designer over unpaid wages
Taliah Leslie alleges that Yeezy misclassified its employees and didn t pay them for expenses related to the job
, his company wasn’t the best at paying his employees.
Court documents reveal that
Taliah Leslie, who worked for Yeezy as an assistant designer, alleges that the company failed to comply with California labor code requirements due to its policy of misclassifying employees as independent contractors.
She maintains that this was done to rob them of legal wages and other benefits. Leslie also asserts that this isn’t an isolated occurrence and that Yeezy actually makes it a practice to blatantly violate labor code sections to save money.
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Used clothes and shoes typically sell for discounted prices, but items worn by music icons on prestigious stages make record-breaking sales. A pair of prototype Nikes worn by
Kanye West just broke the record for a pair of sneakers ever sold.
According to
The Guardian, the sneakers worn by West during the 2008 Grammy Awards have been auctioned off for over $1 million. The Nike
Air Yeezy 1 officially sold for $1.8m during a SOTHEBY’s private sale and are the first sneaker to be sold for this amount.
Rares, a sneaker investment marketplace, purchased the shoe.
Besides making history as the first pair of athletic footwear to be sold at the million-dollar mark, the purchase also made history as the highest publicly recorded price for a sneaker sale. Prior to the sale, the record for a sneaker purchase was held by a pair of ’85 Jordan 1s that
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