Bianca Cambeiro is suing Alanis Morissette and her husband, Mario Treadway, for $30,000 in unpaid overtime and an additional $100,000 for emotional distress, according to Web Pro News.
She is claiming that the musical couple forced her to work in hostage-like conditions after Morissette gave birth to her first child, son Ever. TMZ obtained the court documents, in which Cambeiro says she worked a 12-hour night shift for the couple three to four times a week from August 2011 to March 2013.
She alleges that Morissette and her husband was locked in Ever's bedroom for the entire shift, and wasn't allowed to leave for breaks or meals unless one of his parents was in the room. Cambeiro's lawyer claims that the nanny, who was paid $25 an hour, was legally entitled to at least two 30-minute meal breaks per shift.
Cambeiro is suing Morissette and Treadway for $130,000 for unpaid wages and emotional distress. $30,000 of the lawsuit is for overtime that Cambeiro said she wasn't paid. According to the complaint, Cambeiro was "never, once, paid overtime, regardless of the schedule or hours she worked and was denied meal and rest breaks daily."
The lawsuit also says that Cambeiro traveled with Morissette while on tour and had to work seven straight days on seven occasions. When Cambeiro said she and other nannies wanted to know why they weren't paid overtime, Morissette's accountant said, "We don't do that."
While Cambeiro's allegations of no overtime wages sound bad enough, she also says that she was confined to the baby's nursery. She said that she was told by Morissette and Treadway that "she was prohibited from leaving the bedroom of the child she was supervising while the child was sleeping," unless one of the defendants were in the room.
