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No sex in the Champagne Room, but Kansas Strippers can get Unemployment.

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Slayven

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blo...0043688--abc-news-savings-and-investment.html


The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that exotic dancers at a strip club have the right to collect unemployment insurance as employees and not independent contractors.

In 2005, a dancer at Club Orleans in Topeka filed an unemployment claim. The dancers earn money through tips, while the club maintains that it is offering "rental space" for them to perform.

By ruling that the workers are employees because they had to follow a number of house rules, the state Supreme Court decided that the club's owners must contribute to the state unemployment-insurance fund, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The Kansas Department of Labor argued that the minimum rates for particular dances and rules binding interactions with customers could be interpreted as rules for employees.

The Department of Labor would not release the name of the worker who filed for unemployment.

Michael Merriam, an attorney for Milano's, a company that owned Club Orleans since 2002, told ABC News that the ruling "was incorrectly decided."

"The court relied almost entirely on the fact that we had some house rules which were requested by the dancers. They were designed to keep everything legal," Merriam said. "And the court relied on that fact alone to say we had control over them and that made them employees."

He said his client does not plan to appeal the decision.

"This is the Kansas Supreme Court. This is where it ends," he said.

A spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Labor said this ruling applies to the workers at issue in this case.

"All decisions concerning unemployment are based on the applicable law and the specific facts of each case," she said.


But if a dancer is injured while twerking can she get workers' comp?
 

Phoenix

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That's dumb as hell. When strip clubs and strippers could collectively spend the rest of their lives in jail for tax evasion, a ruling like this doesn't make one lick of sense.
 

oneHeero

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But....it doesn't sound like they're paying into UI?

I think they do;

By ruling that the workers are employees because they had to follow a number of house rules, the state Supreme Court decided that the club's owners must contribute to the state unemployment-insurance fund, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Or am I reading that wrong?
 
Seems like a non-issue. I mean odds are these strippers are tax cheats but we can't assume that. They could be paying taxes directly to the government on the tips they earn.
 
Stripping is legal, strippers have to eat, what is the problem?

I don't like fat strippers.

Also:
I was lonelier than Kunta Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert that night I strolled on into Uncle Limpy's Hump Palace lookin' for love. It had been a
While. In fact, three hundred and sixty-five had come and went since that midnight run haulin' hog to Shakey Town on I-10. I had picked up this
Hitchhiker that was sweatin' gallons through a pair of Daisy Duke cut-offs and one of those Fruit Of The Loom tank-tops. Well, that night I lost myself
To ruby red lips, milky white skin and baby blue eyes. Name was Russell.

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'

Well, faster than you can say, "shallow grave", this pretty little thing come up to me and starts kneadin' my balls like hard-boiled eggs in a tube sock.
Said her name was Bambi and I said, "Well that's a coincidence darlin', 'cause I was just thinkin' about skinnin' you like a deer." Well she smiled,
Had about as much teeth as a Jack-O-Lantern, and I went on to tell her how I would wear her face like a mask as I do my little kooky dance. And
Then she told me to shush. I guess she could sense my desperation. 'Course, it's hard to hide a hard-on when you're dressed like Minnie Pearl.

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'

So, Bambi's goin' on about how she can make all my fantasies come true. So I says, "Even this one I have where Jesus Christ is jackhammering
Mickey Mouse in the doo-doo hole with a lawn dart as Garth Brooks gives birth to something resembling a cheddar cheese log with almonds on
Santa Claus's tummy-tum?" Well, ten beers, twenty minutes and thirty dollars later I'm parkin' the beef bus in tuna town if you know what I mean.
Got to nail her back at her trailer. Heh. That rhymes. I have to admit it was even more of a turn-on when I found out she was doin' me to buy baby
Formula.

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'

Day or so had passed when I popped the clutch, gave the tranny a spin and slid on into The Stinky Pinky Gulp N' Guzzle Big Rig Snooze-A-Stop.
There I was browsin' through the latest issue of "Throb", when I saw Bambi starin' at me from the back of a milk carton. Well, my heart just dropped.
So, I decided to do what any good Christian would. You can not imagine how difficult it is to hold a half gallon of moo juice and polish the
One-eyed gopher when your doin' seventy-five in an eighteen-wheeler. I never thought missing children could be so sexy. Did I say that out loud?

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
 
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