A lap dancer has just won a case that established her as an employee of, rather than a contractor to, the club where she worked. Lap dancing clubs are licenses to print money - but not for the reasons you might think.
They work like this. Each (probably not very beautiful) 'punter' pays £20 for a 'dance' with a (beautiful) girl. This is a semi-striptease in front of him in a semi-private booth overlooked by a bouncer. There is no touching allowed. Before they do their 'dance' they usually weedle a (very expensive) drink for themselves and the man they have enveigled. Here is the best bit: each girl pays (yes that is right) £80 to come and work at the club and they then keep all the £20s they earn once they have covered their door money. If they choose to expand the relationship outside the club then that is their business.
There cannot be many business models where the main employees and salespeople pay to come to work.
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