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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Case: Wage & Hour/Worker Misclassification (N.D. Tex.) - Bloomberg Law

Exotic dancers for Mainstage Management, Inc. can’t proceed collectively with their claims that the company misclassified them as independent contractors then grossly underpaid them in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act but may continue individually, a federal court in Texas ruled. The court reasoned that despite the use of the word “if” in the notice provision of the licensing agreement, there isn’t a condition precedent, but rather a covenant which doesn’t bar the action. However, because the dancers signed the overall agreement and initialed the collective action waiver page, they waived their rights to purse their FLSA claims collectively, ...

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