Kansas Votes to Allow Strippers to Receive Unemployment

By MSN Now

Kansas Votes to Allow Strippers to Receive Unemployment

February 6, 2013 Updated Feb 6, 2013 at 3:48 PM PDT

If you're an out-of-work stripper, you can collect unemployment while looking for a new place to shake your tassels. That's the ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court, anyway, which said exotic dancers are employees of their clubs, not just contractors.

The case reached the state's highest court when a dancer from Topeka's Club Orleans was denied unemployment because the club argued that she "rented" her space on the stage and earned money through tips.

Based on the club's house rules — governing how the strippers interact with customers — the court ruled that the dancers were employees, not independent contractors. "[The ruling] was incorrectly decided," the club's attorney whined. C'mon, there's no crying in the champagne room.

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