Sting and wife fined for sex discrimination

Reuters ^ | July 17, 2007

[ConservativeStatement]

LONDON (Reuters) - An employment tribunal ordered rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler to pay 24,944 pounds in compensation on Tuesday for wrongfully dismissing their former chef.

Jane Martin, who cooked for Sting and his family at their country estate in England, filed a claim in July last year saying she had been sacked by Styler after revealing she was pregnant.

[ConservativeStatement]

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

[vpintheak]

Here I thought good lieberals could do no wrong. I stand corrected.

[elizabetty]

But he could have kept her job if she killed the wee one.

Murder is AOK but procreating is just nasty.

[kinoxi]

The wife going after the housekeeper for getting pregnant makes me wonder who the father is.

[Clam Digger]

This could just be the canary in a coalmine. I wonder if she’s the general’s daughter?

[ConservativeStatement]

"Was I ever at Sting's....?????"

[Blue Turtle]

Who cares? I certainly don’t. About time he reunited with THE POLICE. Can’t wait to see ‘em.

[A message]

LOL !!!

[ConservativeStatement]

I wonder if Trudie was “Driven to Tears.”

[joebuck]

There’s a picture of Sting’s wife at the link - GUILTY

[Clam Digger]

Don’t know, but I’ll bet the cook is walking on the moon over the award.

[ConservativeStatement]

At some point Trudie looked at her and said “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.”

[Recovering Hermit]

Hilarious!

[LYSandra]

I read some time back that Sting pays his band union scale and is tighter than a tic while Stevie Wonder paid health benefits-bought his band guys houses and paid very well. So I believe this. I have read more than once Sting VERY frugal - on the order of McCartney! Don’t you think all of the libs are complete hypocrits? I do. Do as I say not as I do!

[Jakarta ex-pat]

If you love somebody...set them free.

[Taylor42]

Boy, Trudie hasn’t aged very well...

[Enchante]

The cook was sending out an SOS........ the court got her message in a bottle

[ConservativeStatement]

I don’t know too much about Sting other than his music but NIMBY is my favorite term for liberal hypocrisy.

[Clam Digger]

So Sting should spell it Stinge?

[Lost Highway]

I know I hate it when my personal chef turns up pregnant.