Candy Spelling’s daughter won’t speak to her and now she is being sued by an ex-employee for wrongful termination and retaliation.
Lourdes Serrano used to be a maid at Candy and Aaron Spelling’s Beverly Hills mega-mansion. In a suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Serrano claims that Spelling made her clock out for two ten-minute breaks a day but did not pay her for those breaks. She asks for undetermined monetary damages, punitive damages and a jury trial.
Also named as defendants are the estate of Aaron Spelling and the Spelling Revocable Trust.
In the petition, Serrano says she started working at the Spelling mansion in March 2008 and was told by the butlers (!) that she was allowed to take breaks but that Candy Spelling preferred if she did not. So, she didn’t take breaks. Then, on August 5th, according to Serrano, Spelling told her that she would have to clock out if she took breaks.
Serrano continued to work without breaks until August 9th, when she clocked out to take one break. She took another break on August 10th. On August 11th, Serrano was allegedly disciplined by Spelling’s personal assistant and one of the butlers and told that she had to take two breaks every shift. She was to clock in and out for the breaks.
On August 12th, Serrano worked without taking a break. She had the next three days off. When she returned on August 16th, she was fired.
She apparently claims that she complained about having to clock out for the breaks – which, if true, is a violation of California wage law (required breaks must be paid) – and then got fired for complaining. I see a settlement in this one. Will never go to trial. Mark my words.
