Payment has always varied club to club. Before AB 5, if a dancer made $50 in a VIP area, she often kept $40 while the club took around a $10 cut. But many clubs now say they need to keep the first $100 or $120 a dancer earns from private dances to cover the cost of paying employees minimum wage, and still take a cut of any money dancers make after they reach that threshold.
These unintended consequences are definitely the fault of the clubs, says Velveeta , a dancer who is campaigning to form the stripping industry’s first union at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood. “If the clubs were to follow the law correctly, then we would have minimum wage on top of keeping all of our tips, and we would have some kind of fair share of the lap dance money.”
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