{"id":34040,"date":"2013-02-07T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34040"},"modified":"2013-02-07T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:57:04","slug":"long-suffering-kansas-strippers-now-qualify-for-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34040","title":{"rendered":"Long suffering Kansas strippers now qualify for unemployment benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this on Mike and Mike of all places, and it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/strippers-can-get-unemployment-benefits-rules-kansas-supreme-court-1067298\">actually is somewhat interesting<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strippers are employees of the club they work at, not independent contractors, says the Kansas Supreme Court.  This important distinction means strippers are eligible for unemployment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This line from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/Opinions\/SupCt\/2013\/20130201\/102114.pdf\">the opinion had me howling though<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The officer concluded that, despite Milano&#8217;s&#8217; &#8220;creative assertion that a gentlemen&#8217;s club is merely a place with good atmosphere, good lighting and good food,&#8221; the facts reflected that the atmosphere of Club Orleans was largely derived from the presence of its semi-nude dancers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, so dudes DON&#8217;T go to Nuddy bars for the food?  Seriously, who knew?  What about Crystal City Restaurant?  I always heard they have the best steaks in Alexandria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this on Mike and Mike of all places, and it actually is somewhat interesting. Strippers are employees of the club they work at, not independent contractors, says the Kansas Supreme Court. This important distinction means strippers are eligible for unemployment. This line from the opinion had me howling though: The officer concluded that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8R2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}