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Originally Posted by Rcourt64
Ya well ok, But that's kinda hard to do when performers only get paid by "show performed per minute", right?
There could be hours that they might sit around without a single customer.
I don't agree with paying employees (as the state might refer to them) for just showing they're pretty face online without producing money till they are taken private. I'd go broke.
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Whether or not you like or agree with it isn't relevant. If you're requiring them to be on duty during a specified time period, and they're working from your studio, then they're almost certainly considered employees.
Minimum wage isn't the only issue involved here either. If they're employees then there's workers comp insurance, payroll taxes, and other employee/employer responsibilities too.
There are ways to get around it, one possibility was mentioned in an earlier post by RawAlex, but you'll want to run that by an attorney familiar with applicable local labor law.