In NE Quashie v Stringfellows Restaurants Ltd (Employment Appeal Tribunal – 26 April) a company (S) operated two ‘gentlemen’s entertainment clubs’ in London. It arranged for young women to dance at the clubs and treated them as self-employed. The dancers received payments from customers at the clubs in the form of vouchers which S distributed. A dancer (Q) who had worked at one of the clubs from June 2007 to December 2008 took proceedings against S in the Employment Tribunal contending that she had been an employee of S and had been unfairly dismissed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal held that Q had been an employee and remitted the case to the Employment Tribunal to determine whether she had been unfairly dismissed.
In NE Quashie v Stringfellows Restaurants Ltd (Employment Appeal Tribunal – 26 April) a company (S) operated two ‘gentlemen’s entertainment clubs’ in London. It arranged for young women to dance at the clubs and treated them as self-employed. The dancers received payments from customers at the clubs in the form of vouchers which S distributed. A dancer (Q) who had worked at one of the clubs from June 2007 to December 2008 took proceedings against S in the Employment Tribunal contending that she had been an employee of S and had been unfairly dismissed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal held that Q had been an employee and remitted the case to the Employment Tribunal to determine whether she had been unfairly dismissed.
