A Portland strip club and its owners must face allegations that one partner unlawfully blocked a dancer who filed a wage case from performing at another of his clubs, an appeals court said Tuesday.
The district court threw out the dancer’s retaliation allegations because the second club wasn’t their employer when the partner canceled a scheduled performance in response to their lawsuit against the first club. Although the Fair Labor Standards Act requires an underlying employment relationship for retaliation claims, the relationship at issue is the one between the dancer and the first club, the US Court of Appeals for ...
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