You would think having a famous, rich brother saying you should work for him would lead to some little dough being kicked your way. For Bruce Kelly it was the other way around.

R. Kelly’s older brother Bruce has reported him to authorities for working him to the bone yet refusing to honour his payments. According to him, they had a deal that he’ll work as a personal assistant and a chauffeur for his younger bro, but despite working crazily long hours for months now, he has not received what he’s owed.

From TMZ:

“R. Kelly worked his brother to the bone — 144 hours/week according to Bruce Kelly … who says he never got a dime, so now he’s blowing the whistle on the singer with the State of Illinois.

Bruce says his younger bro hired him in March as a personal assistant and driver, and they had a verbal agreement — for $700 a week, Bruce would do food runs and chauffeur R. Kelly.

But the brotherly love faded after Bruce started working overtime without seeing any green.

According to docs filed with the state labor board, Bruce says he sometimes had to wait up to 12 hours in the car for R. Kelly … and never got any sleep.

He tells us he even spoke to R. Kelly about the $11k in back pay he claims he was owed … but baby bro didn’t care. Bruce says he put his foot down after 3 months because he’s “not working for nobody, not even his brother, for free.”

The labor board is still investigating his claim. We reached out to R. Kelly’s reps, but no one’s gotten back to us.”