Exotic Dancers Win $1.1 Million in Worker Misclassification Case

A Baltimore nightclub must pay more than $1.1 million to exotic dancers who say it misclassified them as independent contractors and deprived them of some wages, after a default judgment in federal court.

The workers accused PP&G Inc., which does business as Norma Jean’s Nite Club, of violating state and federal wage-and-hour laws. Norma Jean’s answered the complaint but failed to fulfill its discovery obligations, leading the US District Court for the District of Maryland to issue a default judgment.

The dancers said that although Norma Jean’s classified them as independent contractors, they were really employees entitled to more ...