The U.S. Department of Labor filed a federal lawsuit on Jan. 6, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to recover wages and damages for 80 female entertainers of a Wichita gentlemen’s club that allegedly failed to pay full wages, illegally deducted fees from their tips and required them to reimburse the employer if litigation or an investigation ever recovered lost wages for the dancers.
The litigation follows after an investigation by the department’s found Pleasures and its operator, Mother’s Finest LTD, misclassified dancers as independent contractors LTD, that deprived them of overtime and other benefits and protections, made illegal deductions from dancers’ tips and allegedly had dancers sign contracts with a clause forcing them to kick back lost wages recovered by litigation or an investigation.
Filed in the U.S. District Court of Kansas in Wichita, the complaint seeks back wages and an equal amount of liquidated damages for the 80 dancers and asks the court to restrain Pleasures from illegal retaliation against its employees and forbidding the company from violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Source: DOJ
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