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Friday, September 13, 2013

Judge Says Strippers Are Employees, Merit Minimum Wage

Are dancers at a strip club independent contractors or employees? That’s the question involved in a lawsuit against a popular Manhattan club and in at least one other pending lawsuit against a club in Colorado.
Dancers at Rick’s Cabaret in NYC sued the club’s owners saying that they should be provided minimum hourly wages and treated like actual employees. The club tried to counter that each dancer is an independent contractor who makes a good living by earning “performance fees” — usually in the form of cash from between the fingers of tipsy customers.

4 comments:

Nice work Judge...NOT said...

That way the Judge does not have to tip the gal after her act...she is on the payroll

Anonymous said...

In that case,most of the workers for the school system as in food workers and bus drivers are employees then not contractual.

Anonymous said...

Different circumstances. A contractual worker is someone who is self employed and has a contract to perform certain duties at certain times.
An independent contractor would be something like a man who does landscaping for a business, comes in on an as needed basis or by his own schedule and supplies his own materials. There's more to it but these are the basics.

Anonymous said...

That's real bright. Take minimum wage over what their making now in tips?