Booze Sales Expose Strip Club to Minimum Wage Law

An Atlanta strip club is covered by the federal minimum wage law because the alcohol it serves moves through interstate commerce, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled (Henderson v. 1400 Northside Drive, 2016 BL 177520, N.D. Ga., 1:13-cv-3767, 6/3/16).

The Fair Labor Standards Act covers businesses that engage in interstate commerce. Swinging Richards said the FLSA’s wage floor doesn’t apply because the club is “the ultimate consumer of the packaged goods it purchases” from distributors. The club doesn’t resell packages of liquor it purchases from the interstate distributors, it said.

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