Many of you will have seen our
Top Twenty Tweets of Twenty Twelve - a compilation of the 20
most topical employment law questions, answered using case study
examples from the last year. The case of Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd v Quashie [2012] EWCA
Civ 1735 was considered, addressing the issue of lap dancers
and their employment status.
In the latest decision, in relation to the employment status of
the Claimant in the above case, the English Court of Appeal has
found that the Claimant, a lap dancer, was not an employee. This
overturns
case number 8 in our Top Twenty Tweets.
Ms Quashie, who was a lap-dancer at London's most infamous
"gentleman's club", Stringfellows, brought a claim
for unfair dismissal to the Employment Tribunal (ET) after she was
dismissed due to gross misconduct. The ET was tasked with
ascertaining whether Ms Quashie was in fact an employee of
Stringfellows, as she claimed, or if, as Stringfellows argued, she
was self-employed.
