Former Gov. candidate Meg Whitman to pay housekeeper Nicky Diaz $5500 after wage dispute

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Closing out a chapter which roiled her GOP gubernatorial campaign for weeks -- and became a turning point in her race against Democrat Jerry Brown -- billionaire former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has agreed to pay $5500 to Nicky Diaz Santillan, who worked as her undocumented former housekeeper for nine years.

... Dr. Griffith Harsh, Whitman's neurosurgeon husband, came to the hearing with attorney Dennis Brown, and Diaz was accompanied by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who represented her on the matter.

Both sides declared victory at the finish.

Allred, emerging from the conference and surrounded by camera and press, said Diaz's experience -- and her successful effort to recover back wages -- served notice to employers around the country to pay domestic workers what they are due. She said Whitman all along could have simply resolved the matter by sending a check.

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[bluestateguy]

1. And I wonder how much of a cut Gloria Allred will take

nt

[tabatha]

2. I don't think anything.

I think she achieved her goal.

[rasputin1952]

3. For all of her worth, she's too damn dumb to just

send a $5,500 check?

A complete disaster as a human being there...x(

[radhika]

4. To save $5,500 she flushed $160 million. Karma is a bitch. n/t

[herbm]

5. I only wish it were more. Whitman better remember what happened to Leona Helmsley.

[happygoluckytoyou]

6. hahaha NOW SHE LOST 160,005,500 ON THE ELECTION... I'M ALL DAMP AND EVERYTHING