DIDDY'S RECORD LABEL BEING SUED BY INTERN FOR VIOLATING MINIMUM-WAGE LAWS

SEAN "P. DIDDY" COMBS

"It's All About the Benjamins" for Sean “P. Diddy” Combs – but now a former intern for the rap mogul's record label Bad Boy Entertainment also wants some of his cash money.
Rashida Salaam of Brooklyn filed a class-action lawsuit today in Manhattan federal court accusing the company of violating minimum-wage laws by not paying interns for work performed.

Among the tasks that Bad Boy honchos assign to interns are getting lunch and coffee for paid staffers, answering phones, gift wrapping presents, and decorating the firm's Broadway offices during the holidays, the suit says.

One source said company CEO Combs, who founded Bad Boy in 1993, even had the gall to require interns – although Salaam wasn’t one of them -- wrap holiday and birthday presents for his kids.

Salaam worked as an unpaid intern from January 2012 to June 2012, typically three or four days each week until 6 pm or 7 pm, the suit says. Her duties “primarily” included answering phones, filing and copying documents, running errands and preparing expense reports.

“She was a performance worker who should have been paid like anyone else but was classified as an unpaid intern,” said Salaam’s lawyer Lloyd Ambinder.

The suit estimates that under federal law more than 500 ex-interns who began working at Bad Boy after August 2007 are eligible to join the class-action claim.

Bay Boy did not immediately return messages seeking comment on the suit.