Britney’s Ex-Guards Must Settle Claims
Three former security guards who claim Britney Spears owes them overtime pay must settle their dispute through arbitration, a Los Angeles judge ruled Monday, according to the Associated Press.Â
In a lawsuit filed in March, Silas Dukes, Lonnie DeShawn Jones and Randy Jones say they were hired by two of Spears’s companies – Britney Brands Inc. and Britney Touring Inc. – to provide security for the 24-year-old singer and her home, at a salary of $2,400 to $3,350 per week.
The guards’ attorney, Stephen Madoni, plans to appeal the order to arbitrate – saying that the ruling could put his clients at a disadvantage given that two of three arbitration meetings will be held in New York rather than California, which he said has more favorable laws.
Britney Brands Inc. and Britney Touring Inc. are incorporated in New York and California.
Madoni further claims that the three men never agreed to arbitrate wage claims, and that arbitration would take away court protections for the men.
Attorney William J. Briggs II, who represents Spears’s companies, said the original agreement between the guards and the companies called for wage disputes to be arbitrated.
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