Wish they all could be California girls Â
Wish they all could be California girls!
>:( Taking any of a worker tip money is illegal in California. :( The owners are using a token system at some clubs as a way around the law because of the terminology written into the labor code. Apparently Dawn Passar (http://www.eda-sf.org/submissions/interviewdp.html)& Johanna Breyer (http://www.poornewsnetwork.org/publi...er_Johanna.htm) of the EDA (Exotic Dancer’s Alliance http://www.eda-sf.org/EDAhome.htm) and their representation in Sacramento left a loophole. :(
At the Déjà vu clubs in San Francisco still take cash and not a token system. >:(
But anyway the owners are going to try to keep taking your tip money, At MBOT by looking at their daily schedule you can see that Approximately 50 girls work a day.
??? To make along story short they are taking between 3 to $5 million (a conservative estimate) of dancers tip money a year. So you can see the greedy owners are going to fight the Dancers from getting their money. >:(
The reason I am bringing this up is you may wonder why after you file a claim you need to get a Lawyer. The argument is they don’t take tip money the Dancers (prostitutes are a different issue) the Dancers have a quota to fill at Mitchell Brothers O’ffarell in San Francisco Theater have to turn in 20 X $20 chips = $400. >:( :(http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/35/20/leadb.html The 3 theaters named in the suit were Mitchell Brothers O’ffarell Theater; Market Street Cinema & the New Century Theater which are no longer dance clubs but brothels >:( :( :o http://www.sfbg.com/News/32/18/Features/strip.html http://www.examiner.com/news/default...trippers.0621w pushing hundreds of exotic dancers to find work elsewhere. >:( :( :o ??? ::) :'(
8)To file a claim/complaint in California go to http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/dlse.html. ;)
??? SEVERAL GIRLS HAVE ASKED ME IF I KNEW WHERE THEY COULD FIND A LAWYER. The only lawyer I have found so far is Christopher J. Morosoff http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...08/MN77000.DTL
23101 Sherman Place, Suite 401 West Hills, California 91307 office 818- 715-7515 or the 705-3170. ;D :-/
He is located in the valley he does have cases in San Diego and San Francisco.
He handling class action suits, individual suits for dancers against clubs for a variety of things such as failure to provide state disability insurance, unlawful termination, as well as failure to pay wages. He is willing to take on more clients. 8) :)
The class action claims in the suits involve more than just the unlawful taking of tips. They primarily allege that the clubs have unlawfully failed to pay the dancers any wage whatsoever. In addition, they allege that by taking a portion of their lap dance money, they are in fact unlawfully taking a portion of their gratuities (i.e., tips). They also allege various other claims such as the charging of unlawful fees as a condition of employment, failure to pay overtime where applicable, and unlawful business practices.
:) ;) ;D IF ANY DANCERS KNOW OF LAWYERS WHO ARE HANDELING CASES AND WILLING TO TAKE ON MORE CLIENTS PLEASE POST THEIR INFO. 8) :) ;)
It seems as though southern California is covered no Lawyers for the northern California. ;) SO IF YOU HAVE LAWYERS IN OTHER CITIES ESPECIALLY SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA INCLUDING SAN JOSE PLEASE POST HERE. :) Christopher J. Morosoff in addition, would also be more than willing to co-counsel any suits with local counsel in other areas, such as the Bay Area. He would also be willing to simply provide whatever assistance and advice he can to any other attorney handling any similar suit in any area of the country. 8) :)
California code from changes to AB 2509
FYI ??? :) :-/
350. As used in this article, unless the context indicates
otherwise:
(a) "Employer" means every person engaged in any business or
enterprise in this state that has one or more persons in service
under any appointment, contract of hire, or apprenticeship, express
or implied, oral or written, irrespective of whether the person is
the owner of the business or is operating on a concessionaire or
other basis.
(b) "Employee" means every person, including aliens and minors,
rendering actual service in any business for an employer, whether
gratuitously or for wages or pay, whether the wages or pay are
measured by the standard of time, piece, task, commission, or other
method of calculation, and whether the service is rendered on a
commission, concessionaire, or other basis.
(c) "Employing" includes hiring, or in any way contracting for,
the services of an employee.
(d) "Agent" means every person other than the employer having the
authority to hire or discharge any employee or supervise, direct, or
control the acts of employees.
(e) "Gratuity" includes any tip, gratuity, money, or part thereof
that has been paid or given to or left for an employee by a patron of
a business over and above the actual amount due the business for
services rendered or for goods, food, drink, or articles sold or
served to the patron. Any amounts paid directly by a patron to a
dancer employed by an employer subject to Industrial Welfare
Commission Order No. 5 or 10 shall be deemed a gratuity.
(f) "Business" means any business establishment or enterprise,
regardless of where conducted.
351. No employer or agent shall collect, take, or receive any
gratuity or a part thereof that is paid, given to, or left for an
employee by a patron, or deduct any amount from wages due an employee
on account of a gratuity, or require an employee to credit the
amount, or any part thereof, of a gratuity against and as a part of
the wages due the employee from the employer. Every gratuity is
hereby declared to be the sole property of the employee or employees
to whom it was paid, given, or left for. An employer that permits
patrons to pay gratuities by credit card shall pay the employees the
full amount of the gratuity that the patron indicated on the credit
card slip, without any deductions for any credit card payment
processing fees or costs that may be charged to the employer by the
credit card company. Payment of gratuities made by patrons using
credit cards shall be made to the employees not later than the next
regular payday following the date the patron authorized the credit
card payment.