Megan Thee Stallion is dealing with a harassment lawsuit from a person who says he used to work as a cameraman for the Houston rapper. In line with the criticism, filed in a California courtroom and seen by Pitchfork, Megan Thee Stallion’s “conduct created a hostile work setting for Plaintiff [Emilio Garcia], making the circumstances of his employment insupportable in direct contravention of assorted statutes and state regulation choices.”
In line with his lawsuit, Garcia started working as a private cameraman for Megan Thee Stallion in or round July 2018, and he says he stop his full-time job round September 2019 to work full-time with the musician. His employment continued, he says, till being informed “unexpectedly” in June 2023 that “his companies would not be required by [Megan Thee Stallion].”
Within the criticism, Garcia claims that Megan Thee Stallion’s violations of the Honest Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) started in June 2022 whereas he was on tour with the musician in Ibiza, Spain. Garcia alleges that he was in an SUV with Megan and three different girls when the rapper “and one of many different girls begin having intercourse proper beside [him].” Garcia “couldn’t get out of the automotive because it was each transferring and he was in the midst of nowhere abroad,” he claims, leaving him “embarrassed, mortified and offended all through the entire ordeal.”
Following alleged incident within the SUV, Megan informed Garcia, “Don’t ever focus on what you noticed,” and made “fat-shaming feedback” towards him, in keeping with the lawsuit. Garcia additionally claims that he “seen a change in how he was handled and noticed a lower within the variety of bookings he obtained from [Megan Thee Stallion].”
Along with the alleged hostile work setting harassment in violation of FEHA, Garcia claims that Megan and her administration firm, co-defendant Roc Nation, didn’t compensate him correctly for his work, and that he was denied time beyond regulation fee and correct meal and relaxation breaks.
In an announcement shared with Pitchfork, Ron Zambrano, an lawyer for Emilio Garcia, stated: “Megan simply must pay our shopper what he’s due, come clean with her habits and stop this form of sexual harassment and fats shaming conduct. Emilio ought to by no means have been put ready of getting to be within the car together with her whereas she had intercourse with one other girl. ‘Inappropriate’ is placing it flippantly. Exposing this habits to staff is certainly unlawful.”
Pitchfork has reached out to Megan Thee Stallion and Roc Nation’s respective representatives for remark.
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