- Halsey’s former nanny Ashley Funches sued her for alleged wrongful termination and disability discrimination
- Halsey is telling their side of the story in response to a lawsuit from their son Ender’s former nanny.
- Halsey with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing in April
Ashley Funches claims that in 2021, she began working as the singer’s live-in personal attendant for the singer’s then-newborn, who is now 11 months old, according to paperwork filed in a Los Angeles court on June 9 and obtained by E! News. The former nanny claims she was “misclassified” as an “exempt from overtime” employee, and that Halsey fired her in March after she warned the singer that she could need to undergo a medical procedure that would need a leave of absence.
Halsey “illegally and unlawfully terminated her in reprisal for complaining about” the singer’s “illegal and unlawful practise of failing to pay her overtime compensation and on the basis of her disability and/or perceived disability,” according to Funches’ lawsuit.
“In response to particular occurrences in which Halsey’s infant was left unsupervised in a dangerous area while under the nanny’s care,” Halsey’s lawyer added, saying that the nanny was also “intoxicated while the child was in her care.”
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Funches claimed in her lawsuit that Halsey paid her a lump sum of $5,000 for her accumulated overtime the following December, but “despite multiple requests,” offered no explanation as to how that sum compensated the nanny for all of her overtime hours to date, and also allegedly continued to deny her such wages despite her “continuing to work significant amounts of overtime hours caring for Halsey’s child.”
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