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Well, that didn't take long...
Only two days after five former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders field suit against the football team in New York Supreme Court over demeaning work conditions and wages that didn't even meet minimum wage guidelines, the group in charge of the Jills has suspended operations of the group...
Here's Scott and Mary Alice again with the details...
Here's the complaint from the former Jills...
And, stating the nature of the lawsuit, the Bills aren't commenting on the Jills situation...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
And Now It's The Jills Turn To File Suit
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We first saw this with the Oakland Raiders and their cheerleaders...
They filed suit claiming that the team failed to pay them in accordance to minimum wage laws and forced them to act in a demeaned manner at times while representing the team. Citing their long hours and averaging out their activities against the hours worked, it was nowhere close in Oak Town and they went to court...
Now, a handful of former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders are following in that activity in state Supreme Court...
And the one thing the HQ knows is not to mess with any woman from western New York State...
Scott and Mary Alice have the details...
Here's the suit as it was filed...
Obviously, the Bills didn't have any kind of "real" comment citing the impending litigation. But it will be interesting to see how the court views the relationship between independent contractors and a monopoly...
We first saw this with the Oakland Raiders and their cheerleaders...
They filed suit claiming that the team failed to pay them in accordance to minimum wage laws and forced them to act in a demeaned manner at times while representing the team. Citing their long hours and averaging out their activities against the hours worked, it was nowhere close in Oak Town and they went to court...
Now, a handful of former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders are following in that activity in state Supreme Court...
And the one thing the HQ knows is not to mess with any woman from western New York State...
Scott and Mary Alice have the details...
Here's the suit as it was filed...
Obviously, the Bills didn't have any kind of "real" comment citing the impending litigation. But it will be interesting to see how the court views the relationship between independent contractors and a monopoly...
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