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Thursday, October 8, 2026
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Sex contractors

LAS VEGAS — A federal court in Nevada found in favor of a brothel on a sex worker’s lawsuit alleging she was not paid overtime and was not paid for taking breaks, among other alleged employment law violations. The court finds that because the workers’ profits depended on their own managerial skills, could work for other brothels, negotiated their own prices and could promote themselves online, they were contractors and not employees.

Read the ruling here.

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