Tiffany Haddish’s lawyer denies ‘Bogus’ claims of child sexual abuse against comedian

By Smith On Sep 2, 2022

In a recent lawsuit, American comedians Aries Spears and Tiffany Haddish are charged with sexually abusing children.

According to the two unnamed plaintiffs, the comedians solicited them to participate in filthy sexual acts for a string of comedic scenes in 2013. The individuals involved were seven and fourteen years old when the alleged incidents occurred.

Andrew Brettler, who is Haddish’s attorney, said that the plaintiff’s mother has been making these false accusations against Ms. Haddish for several years. Every lawyer who initially took their case — and a number of them — ultimately dropped it once it was obvious that the allegations were untrue and Ms. Haddish would not be blackmailed. Currently, [the mother’s] adult daughter is acting pro se in this action. The results of taking this pointless action will be something they both have to deal with.

Law on wages: 5 things that are set to change

Timeline for salary

Currently, labour laws are governed by multiple legislations. But the new law bring better and wider coverage of the workforce for social security benefits, ease of compliance, digitisation of employees’ records and ease of access to information such as vacancies, etc.

Presently, the provisions of Payment of Wages Act, 1936, which governs the wage settlement timelines is applicable only to workers with wages not exceeding Rs 24,000 per month. For this purpose, wages include all salaries and allowances including bonus payable in accordance with the terms of employment. However, the new law does not specify any salary limit and covers all employees, thereby, making this timeline universal. Hence, it is important for organisations to understand the implications in terms of meeting the related compliances and how this would impact the payroll process and timelines.

Full and final settlement of wages

At present, it takes up to two months for a former employee to get his dues from previous organisation. But the new Code mandates the payment of wages to an ex-employee within two working days of his/her removal, dismissal, retrenchment or resignation. At present, not all the states’ legislations include “resignation” for determining this timeline of two working days.

Grey area

It is worth mentioning that under the law, the timelines have been mentioned in relation to the payment of “wages” due and there is a specific definition of the term “wages”. Therefore, one could take a view that this requirement relates only to wages and does not include terminal benefits such as gratuity, leave encashment etc. This aspect is expected to become clear once the final rules relating to the new codes are notified.

Wage settlement for new joinees

For the new joinees, the law indicates that for monthly wage earners, the wages are required to be settled within seven days of the subsequent month and that the wage period cannot be more than a month. Here companies could face challenges in terms of new joinees onboarded during the month, where the joining date is after the payroll cutoff timeline. But for a new joinee, this is likely to mean that he/she would get even a few days salary at the end of the joining month if he/she joined just a few days before the month-end

Cap on deductions

Employers will have to ensure that deductions made from the salary relate to specifically permissible deductions (such as contribution to Provident Fund, tax deduction at source (TDS), etc.) and that the total deduction in any month should not exceed 50% of wages. For instance, where a new joinee joins an organization on 1 March 2022 (last month of the financial year) and opts for contributions such as NPS, Voluntary PF etc. in the month of March 2022, then the deductions for March 2022 (including contribution to PF, tax deduction, etc.) could exceed the 50% of wages for March 2022.

(Saraswathi Kasturirangan is Partner with Deloitte India, Radhika Viswanathan is Executive Director with Deloitte Haskins and Sells LLP and Vijayalakshmi Kartik is Manager with Deloitte Haskins and Sells LLP.)

A settlement was reportedly arranged by the mother of the siblings in 2019, although neither Haddish nor the siblings are said to be bound by it. The individuals involved, rather than the mother, are the ones who filed the new complaint.

One of the individuals involved said that she can now defend her younger brother because she is an adult and can also take action to change what occurred to him. And completing it is what she wants to accomplish.

The two alleged victims are the kids of a former friend of Haddish. The two siblings’ mother claimed to have met Haddish through the comedy scene, and the two ladies reportedly became friends through their similar struggles with divorce. Haddish told the family in 2013 that she had gotten their daughter the ideal role in one of the commercials she was filming.

The mother claimed she tried to get the film from Spears and Haddish for a week. She claimed she had no idea what had been filmed until an article posted the filthy sketch on the gossip website four years later.

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