The strip club Cloakroom Gentlemen’s Club is being sued by the D.C. Attorney General’s Office over claims it created a “hostile and exploitative work environment” for female employees, which included subjecting them to sexual harassment, physical abuse and retaliation when speaking up.
The D.C. Attorney General’s Office said in speaking with employees, prosecutors discovered club management stole “hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips and wages from employees” by cutting how much they should have received in tips and forcing them to clock out before they were done working.
“Cloakroom also forces entertainers to clock out prior to nightly, mandatory ‘post-shift’ meetings that regularly last 30-60 minutes, failing to pay them anything for this time,” D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a news release.
The female employees also alleged they were inappropriately touched while working at the K Street establishment and required in some instances by a manager to perform sex acts to take sick leave, according to Dennis Corkery, the assistant chief of the Workers’ Rights and Anti-Fraud Section.
“Not being given sick leave, that’s a clear violation of D.C. law, but then the added indignity of asking for sexual favors to access such a fundamental right, as being able to take paid sick leave, is really abhorrent,” Corkery told WTOP.
Named in the lawsuit were the club’s owners, Antonios Cavasilios and Carlos Horcasitas.
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