Lawsuit: Strip club's pay scheme unlawful

Some strip club owners like to perpetuate the idea that dancers make really good money, enough to pay their way through college.

But a federal lawsuit suggests that, at least at one Northwoods dance club, many dancers barely get by, paying upfront fees to dance and being denied a week's share of tips if they don't do at least four lap dances a night or if they break a long list of the club's rules.

The issue, being raised more and more often in the modern "gig economy," is whether the dancers are truly independent contractors or should be considered employees of the clubs.

Krista Pecor's suit says she would represent a whole class of dancers at Northpointe Exotic Dance Club in Peshtigo, where, according to the claims, dancers can easily end up losing money after a week working the stage. Her attorneys at a La Crosse law firm did not return messages.

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[font color=330099]The legal precedents are for the strippers so it is surprising that the strip club owners are not settling and wasting money defending themselves.