Thread: Whitman Settles with Housekeeper for Chump Change

Whitman Settles with Housekeeper for Chump Change

Published November 18, 2010

Nicky DÃ*az Santillán, right, and her attorney Gloria Allred, are all smiles as they leave a hearing in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, after the housekeeper settled with former boss, Meg Whitman, for $5,500.

Nicky DÃ*az Santillán, right, and her attorney Gloria Allred, are all smiles as they leave a hearing in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, after the housekeeper settled with former boss, Meg Whitman, for $5,500.

Meg Whitman’s price tag on her gubernatorial campaign? $140 million.

Her settlement with the housekeeper she fired? $5,500.

Settling with a formerly trusted employee for the price of a used car? Priceless.

That sums up Whitman’s settlement with Nicky DÃ*az Santillán. The former California gubernatorial candidate and her husband, Dr. Griffith Harsh IV, did not admit any wrongdoing while agreeing to the settlement at a two-hour meeting at the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

The settlement reimburses DÃ*az Santillán for unpaid wages but not the mileage she said she was owed when she ran errands for the family, including picking up their dry cleaning and driving Harsh to the airport. It also does not call for any penalties that could have been assessed for late payment

Still, DÃ*az Santillán’s attorney, Gloria Allred, was happy with the outcome even though she initially asked for up to $10,000.

“The larger message is that if you’re Meg Whitman or a small employer or anyone else – if you hire someone, you need to pay them the wages for the hours that they worked,â€

This just proves she had no case. $5500 was just a token because the whole thing was a sham.

I hear $5500 will go pretty far in Mexico.

I wouldn't have given this illegal skagg a dime

And why hasn't she been arrested and deported , or tried for
using fake docs?

whats up with that?