OPINION: While six ex-Gloriavale women are engaged in a lengthy litigation case in the Employment Court, arguing they were employees and not volunteers, dancers are picketing outside a Wellington strip club and looking to lobby Parliament over their rights as independent contractors.
It is reported that 19 dancers working at Wellington's Calendar Girls were told not to come back to work via a Facebook post after requesting better work contracts.
On January 30, 35 dancers from the club decided to bargain collectively. The dancers asked management for two things: clear income records and a 60% cut of their earnings. It is understood that currently the dancers may pay up to 56% of their earnings back to their employer.
The dancers sent an email asking for changes. They say the next day over half of them were told by the proprietor in a Facebook group post to “clear out their lockers”.
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Immediately after the proprietor's post, his account made another Facebook post seeking accommodation for what appeared to be their replacements.
In a statement, Calendar Girls management said 12 of the 19 dancers asked to clear their locker had already moved away or stopped working for the club.
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