Reminds me of a similar story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8566389/Servant-paid-2.50-an-hour...

An Arab Princess has been ordered to pay £175,000 in compensation to a servant paid less than £2.50 an hour who was forced to dig into his own pocket to cover the food bills from Harrods because Tesco was not considered good enough.