Strip club workers in Denver are legally considered workers who are entitled to protections under the city's wage and employment laws, a Denver district judge ruled last week. The ruling comes as part of a lawsuit from several clubs against Denver Labor, a division of the city auditor's office, which ordered the clubs to pay back millions of dollars in wages to hundreds of employees.

Denver Labor launched an investigation into PT's Showclub Centerfold, PT's Showclub, and Diamond Cabaret in 2023 and Rick's Cabaret in 2024. The office found that two of those strip clubs -- Diamond Cabaret and Rick's Cabaret -- misclassified entertainers as exempt from wage and hour laws, violated minimum wage laws , and engaged in widespread wage theft .

"Our office enforces wage theft laws for all

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