… I have spoken with other women who said they would come forward,” Jesse Morrow, a legal assistant for the plaintiff’s lawyers, Pyle Rome Ehrenberg of Boston, said.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs argued that the club classified them as independent contractors but treated them as employees by exercising control over their work hours, wardrobe and performance music. The women also claimed they had to pay fees to perform.
On Aug. 9, a Norfolk Superior Court judge authorized the terms of the class-action settlement, which gives an unspecified amount to each claimant.
The plaintiff’s lawyers will receive $200,000 of the payout. Each of the 28 current plaintiffs would receive $14,285 from the remainder, assuming each receives an equal share.
A non-disclosure agreement prohibits attorneys on both sides from talking about the resolution of the lawsuit, filed in May by six former strippers and massage workers, or “rub girls,” and settled in June.