Exotic dancers appearing at an upstate club were “employees,” and the club’s operators are subject to paying unemployment insurance assessments, a state appeals court decided.

While the dancers set their own schedules and provided their own costumes, the Appellate Division, Third Department, said many other conditions of employment under state Labor Law §511 identify the performers as employees of the Paradise Found “gentlemen’s club” and of its operator, Greystoke Industries.

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