was slammed with a alleging forced labor, degrading treatment, and more. The lawsuit, according to court documents obtained by The Mirror, largely centers around t . For company communication, the employees allegedly used Discord and allegedly split various employees into different groups based on roles and positions.
The lawsuit claimed, "Some team members were called 'slaves' while another group chat referred to team members as 'new slaves.'" "This harassment was perpetuated by [Milo] Yiannopoulos," alleged the complaint. According to the lawsuit, he allegedly referred to one of the team members as a "school shooter.
" Milo is the Chief of Staff at and is believed to work closely with the rapper. The Plaintiff "who identifies as Black, conveyed repeatedly that he was not comfortable with the use of the term, slaves and Black hand emojis being used, and asked that it stop," states the lawsuit. Furthermore the Plaintiff alleged that employees were treated differently based on race with white employees receiving special treatment.
"Only white/Caucasian members of the YZYVSN app development team were secretly given promises of jobs at Yeezy as developers," said the lawsuit. Additionally, the company is comprised of a variety of employees including minors who used the Discord server. The complainant alleged that "were required to work long hours without pay, which required them to sacrifice school and personal time" and that the minors were not exempt.
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