Eliminate back rent practices indebting dancers to clubs. Minimum security staffing requirements in clubs. Independent Contractor Affirmative Protections. Decriminalization of nudity and distance to customers while performing. With our bill, we are stopping harmful industry practices that utilize power imbalances between clubs and dancers to exploit them for profit and labor.
Our bill creates a new revenue source that is not dancers- alcohol- which lowers the cost for dancers to work while funding essential safety and security measures. Dancers deserve to do their work equitably, safely, and without stigmatization.
In SAW and Working Washington unanimously passed the first ever Washington dancer-led legislation, for dancers by dancers. Requires strip clubs to install panic buttons in secluded areas , including VIP rooms. It is up to individual dancers to decide when or if to report.
If a dancer chooses to make a formal statement about a customer behaving violently, the club must place the customer on a blacklist preventing them from returning to the club for at least three years. These lists must be shared among clubs with common ownership. The training will not add to license fees, and it will be developed with the input of dancers. Areas it covers include:. Articles on recent important issues and updates:.
The Dancer Safety and security bill HB Areas it covers include: -Rights of dancers as independent contractors - Information on how to report workplace injuries and abuses, including sexual and physical abuse and sexual harassment -The economics of dancing - List of resources for assistance on the issues covered in the training. Learn More. Dancer Survey.
