New York strippers win $10 million in back wages

[TexasTowelie]

NEW YORK — Dancers at a strip club are due more than $10 million in back wages and tips, a federal judge ruled Friday after the dancers sued to be paid at least a minimum wage.

And additional claims are headed for trial in the class action case, meaning there ultimately could be further awards to roughly 1,900 women who worked at Rick’s Cabaret in Manhattan between 2005 and 2012.

“We are very happy with the court’s ruling,” said the dancers’ Minneapolis-based lawyer, E. Michelle Drake.

The club’s owner, Houston-based RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc., said it planned to appeal and continue “vigorously defending the allegations.” RCI's subsidiaries operate clubs nationwide, including in Dallas and Fort Worth.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20141114-new-york-strippers-win-10-million-in-back-wages.ece

[bluestateguy]

1. Good for them

What they do is very hard, and sometimes dangerous, work.

[Blue Owl]

2. It's like a birthday lawsuit

[Historic NY]

4. well they do have some skin in the game,

[Dawson Leery]

3. kick

[Boom Sound 416]

5. That judge just made it rain