Im just wondering can you legally get fired for a job for being a stripper?


Im just wondering can you legally get fired for a job for being a stripper?





If you work in a right to work state (which most are)yep they can fire you for this. In some fields like teaching or government this has happened quite a bit. That's why if one has a regular job I always advise never to tell others you do any other job because it can backfire.





did you sign paperwork that said you could be terminated for any reason?





Agreed that in states with 'right to work' laws a person can be fired for almost any reason.
And in all states, jobs involving the 'public trust' i.e. working with other people's money, other people's bodies, and especially other people's children, are free to fire people for 'moral' reasons. In all states, jobs involving 'professional licenses' can indirectly fire people via the state professional licensing authority yanking licenses on grounds of 'unprofessional conduct'. And along the same lines, if an employer hires a dancer who failed to list exotic dancing on her job application, they are legally allowed to fire her for lying on said job application if her dancing is discovered after the fact.
However, these days, with the employer's 'costs' of hiring any new employee being so high ( employee health insurance premiums, training costs, potential litigation costs resulting from employee 'complants' etc. ), employers are investing more effort up front to investingate potential new employees before they are ever hired. Thus it's increasingly likely that a new job applicant investigation which turns up 1099's from an 'adult business', or an 'adult business' employer listed on a credit report, or anything controversial during a google / facebook search, will quietly result in that girl's job application simply 'falling off the HR person's desk' into the trash can.
Melonie seems to pretty well informed. I live in a right to work state and that sounds about right. I had a full time job bookkeeping and managing at a grocery chain, a job I had worked 7 years, when I started dancing. It was a large enough chain to have a union, which made it harder for them to fire people for resons not performance related. anyway, I made the mistake of telling someone i shouldnt have. My manager opened an investigation and tried to have me fired, all because iforgot when i entered management, I had to sign something like a morality clause. luckily i wasnt working long enough to have an entertainers card, or any evidence, and was able to have the sc manager 'forget my name and lose my file', until it blew over and i returned.





This is why I am glad I have no paperwork of my adult career (or none that has popped up). While doing my credit report I found my former company (the one I started)listed but it said "entertainment agency" and while Googling I found nothing out there on the company. I never worked in states that required a license and when I filed taxes I listed myself as a model I believe. Since I have done non adult modeling along with nude (mostly artistic)modeling in the event this shows up I can tell employers about my non nude modeling. However this has never shown up and I have had jobs where they investigated my background carefully in government and teaching.
I have never told anyone I worked with I danced, even those I trust. One time a coworker (who I trusted)did ask if I had been a stripper because of a comment I made, but I denied it. She was leaving the company and I doubt she would have told anyone but someone could have been lurking.


What a witch hunt society, we live in, thanks ladies. It sure sucks to work for low wages.




You can be fired for a made up reason to cover for your actual reason for being fired.
If they don't like that you are a stripper they can nit pick until they find a real reason to fire you legally. Just about every employee in this country could be fired for something if their employer wanted to be a stickler. If you are late too often, use your phone too much, take longer breaks than allowed, are dating a fellow employee, say the wrong thing, have low sales numbers, bad customer service ratings, are deemed incompetent, etc.
They can find a reason if they don't have one already. I've discussed that with managers before.
If you are willing to do for one year what other's won't, you can spend a lifetime doing what other's cant.



^^^THIS EXACTLY!!^^^
My "vanilla" job is a part time receptionist. It is with a HUGE company in a big city sooo yeah I'm kinda worried :p. (Oh I'm a camgirl though which is obviously different.)
BUT they can fire me if I represent the company poorly or something like that. Doing porn might be one of those things. It sucksI will hope they never find out!!!
InnesX





Right to work has nothing to do with if you can be fired. Right-to-work laws are statutes in twenty-two U.S. states, allowed under provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, which prohibit agreements between labor unions and employers that make membership, payment of union dues, or fees a condition of employment, either before or after hiring, which would require the workplace to be a closed shop. Melonie just loves to make things up.
What the OP is talking about is "employment at will." Every state is an employment at will state. That means that an employer can terminate you for any reason, so long as it is not an impermissible one. Or, an employer can terminate you for no reason. Thus, in an employment at will state, you cannot be terminated for your religion. However, in most employment at will states, you can be terminated for not being available to work on Sunday. Now, if the Department of Labor or the EEOC finds that you were terminated because Sunday work interfered with you sabbath observance, then it might be an impermissible termination.
Back to the OP's question. In an employment at will state, it is quite possible to be fired for being a stripper. Stripping is not a protected class. Race, religion, national origin and sometimes age and gender are protected classes. But, there are other protections found in different state and federal statutes. Suffice to say, stripping is not protected there either.
HTH
Z





Actually the issue of 'right to work' states is very relevant. In non-'right to work' states, unionized 'straight' job employees ... from teachers to health care workers to whatever ... are typically protected from arbitrary firing by their employer, and can typically only be fired for reasons specified in the union contract. Under that circumstance, a background of exotic dancing in and of itself could NOT be used as acceptable grounds for firing a unionized employee.





There you go making things up again. Right to work applies only to closed shop agreements. Unionized workers may or may not negotiate terms of dismissal. Right to work only restricts one issue that unions and employers can bargain over, and that is a closed shop.
Z


Yes they can! I worked as a CNA in a nursing home and one day, out of the blue, the owner called me at home and said I was fired! I asked why and she said she didn't have to say so, they have a right to terminate without cause. Well, I went right into her office and demanded to make her say why "Was I ever late? (no), my uniform not clean? (no), my hair not pulled back? any abuse to a patient? Offensive language?" etc you get the idea. She had nothing negative to say but the real reason is someone that I was with at a bar (small town) was talking about his fetish and I mentioned I USED TO WORK AS A DOMINATRIX, not that I currently am, but well, that went viral and apparently, through the grapevine I was told that families were concerned and would take their grandparents out of the home if I was allowed to still work there! As if I would spank or tie up grandpa! (not that he wouldn't have loved it, lolSo yes, you can be fired-trust NO ONE with your naughty secret life if you can, cuz it could smack you in the ass later.


Oh, and so after this, I was blackballed from any hiring in any job in the small town and surrounding towns, so I just went to doing phone sex, told a couple girlfriends what I do now, as they asked and it didn't matter now, so I thought-and then people started talking that I was running a phone escort thing, and MEN WOULD COME TO MY HOUSE AT 2 AM FOR "SERVICES" CUZ THEY HEARD ABOUT ME-WTF? So now I was dealing with misinformation about a job I was doing now that I was judged about a job I was NO LONGER doing yet got fired over...friends sticking up for me and telling people what the hell do you want her to do, she has to feed her 4 kids you fucktards....quickly decided I just had to move back to my home state.....ok, enough of my rant, lol, back to more helpful information![]()





While your nitpicky response is technically correct, it's again arguably of little actual relevance since it misses the bigger picture i.e. the 'official attitude' differences between 'right to work' states and non-'right to work' states ...Right to work applies only to closed shop agreements. Unionized workers may or may not negotiate terms of dismissal. Right to work only restricts one issue that unions and employers can bargain over, and that is a closed shop.
... 'closed shop' union contract negotiations in non-'right to work' states will have a far higher probability of successfully negotiating provisions banning arbitrary firing of union employees ... as well as successfully negotiating farther reaching union contract provisions that prevent firing of union employees for reasons that would instantantly get a non-union employee fired in a 'right to work' state ( i.e. drinking alcohol / smoking weed on company property during lunch break, bus driver showing up for work 'impaired' - long list ). While this directly affects union employees, the actual impact goes farther.
I would also assert that non-'right to work' states typically have much more 'employee friendly' Labor Boards and courts / judges / juries, thus increasing the probability that any employee ( union or non-union ) working in that state who claims 'wrongful dismissal' will have the claim resolved in favor of the employee not the employer. This real world history vastly decreases the probability that any employer in that state ( union or non-union ) would attempt to fire an employee in the first place without a strong justifiable reason that would stand up at a DOL / court hearing if/when challenged. A past history of working as a 'stripper' falls well short of that standard.
In further support of this point, the same sort of 'official attitude' difference means that a past history of working as a 'stripper' probably won't be counted as a negative by family courts in non-'right to work' states, but may very well be held against a wife / mother who has a past history of 'stripping' in the family courts of 'right to work' states.
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Last edited by Melonie; 11-10-2011 at 04:44 AM.
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