PH and Colosseum have a class action lawsuit against them

Is this the old employee vs. Independent contractor argument.

I had a thread about this last week, but I used the version reported on Channel 7's website. From the sound of it (surprise), a few former dancers from those clubs are struggling after their dancing careers have ended. If the dancers represented in that lawsuit were smart, they would realize it is more beneficial to them if they stayed classified as independent contractors and not employees. If this lawsuit does anything, hopefully it will just make clubs give the dancer a choice to be classified as a contractor or employee when they sign an employment agreement.

I did not read the entire complaint, but I think I got at least half way through it. This is certainly something these clubs don't need since they are also getting a lot of heat from both the city of Detroit and state of Michigan lately. One of the posters on the Two Sheds forum insists that they have intel that suggests that these clubs have no choice but to take down the curtains in the near future.

Damn they taking down the curtains?! Ughhh why can't people just leave a good thing alone

Any reason they're getting so much heat?

It appears to be violations handed down from the Michigan Liquor Commission, and the reason why Penthouse was closed for a week. All the information I know is what is posted on Two Sheds. Links provided below are going directly to those discussions. The first link is the most recent discussion. The second link is the original discussion.

twosheds.com

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Here's another account of the lawsuit. Strip club owners keep losing these suits because they're clearly violating the law. Of course the lawyers will be the ones who get the most money out of these lawsuits.

detroit.cbslocal.com

Maybe we can get JS69 to represent our interests in keeping the curtains up...

@jackslash- I don't know for a fact that the clubs keep losing lawsuits because most often the cheaper alternative to following the lawsuit to a verdict is a settlement. As a business person if it costs X to settle the dispute then it costs X + Y to fight the claim very often X is covered by an insurance company that makes the decision on the disposition strictly on least cost the merits very rarely factor into the equation.

Thanks for the links s275! I hope they're allowed to keep the curtains up

It's an election year in Detroit. Mayor Mike Duggan, running for his second term, is the former Wayne County Prosecutor. The Mayor must show that he's tough on crime and enforce the restrictive ordinances passed five years ago. Once Detroit gets past the election in November, we may get back to business as usual--ignoring the restrictive ordinances.