A class of California exotic dancers sued their club management claiming they were reclassified as employees and their pay was reduced in retaliation for taking part in a previous wage lawsuit.
The California Supreme Court recently made it more difficult for employers to classify their workers as independent contractors. Club management may have thought it was required to reclassify the dancers as a result, but it didn’t have to drastically reduce their pay, the dancers said in their Jan. 29 complaint. The lawsuit was filed in the California Superior Court for San Diego County.
Punishing the dancers by making them ...
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