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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Bucklo grants an exotic dancer’s motion to dismiss breach of contract and specific performance counterclaims, which her former employer, a strip club, has brought against her. The court also denies the strip club’s motion to remove the exotic dancer as the representative of the putative class pursuing this labor action against it. The dancer, speaking for her class, claims the club wrongly classifies its workers as contractors rather than employees in order to deny them fair pay and benefits, and forces them to hand over a portion of the tips they earn on the job. The club countered that the dancers breached their contracts by failing to accurately record all their tips, but the court finds the club has not shown it has suffered any material harm from this alleged omission. The court also finds the club has not put forward a sufficient reason to exclude the dancer as her class representative.