For club owners deciding how to engage entertainers

“Contractors” was decided years ago. Has anybody looked since?

Rehearsal walks the owner through the facts that decided past dancer-classification cases — who sets the schedule, who sets the prices, house fees, tip-outs, whether entertainers run their own business — records the answers, dates and signs them, and will not record a contractor arrangement unless a current signed audit holds on all three prongs.

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The problem

The label on the contract is not the answer.

California presumes a worker is an employee unless the business can show all three: free from its control, outside its usual course of business, and running an independent business of the same kind. Dancer classification claims have settled for millions. Most clubs that lose decided once, on a contract’s wording, and never asked again how the club actually works on a Friday.

$6.5M

approved in 2022 for 8,402 dancers who said two California club operators misclassified them as contractors and unlawfully shared tips.

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All three

Under the ABC test a worker is an employee unless the hiring business proves all three prongs.

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Not the label

Calling someone an independent contractor in a contract does not by itself show they run an independent business.

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Will not record “contractors” on an audit that does not hold.

Not a reminder. Record the decision refuses a contractor arrangement unless there is a signed audit no more than twelve months old on which all three prongs hold — and an audit will not sign while any question is unanswered or any “not sure” has no note. Signed audits are frozen. There is no override.

How it works

Answer, sign, decide

Answer for how the club really works

Thirteen questions: control, the club’s own business, the entertainer’s own business, and the money practices raised in past claims. Each answer shows at once whether it counts for or against.

Sign it

Every question answered, every “not sure” explained, a name and a date. Signed, it is frozen; next year starts a new one.

Record the arrangement

Employees, or contractors — and contractors only on a signed audit from the last twelve months that holds on A, B and C.

What it will never do

It keeps the club’s answers. Nobody’s pay.

Rehearsal is the owner talking to themselves honestly, in writing.

No entertainer names.Questions about how the club works, not about any person.

No pay, no tax details.No wages, no 1099s, no fees collected. There is no field for any of it.

It decides nothing.It records the club’s answers and what they add up to. Status is for the law and the club’s advisers.

It never touches a payment.The fee is one flat price and it is for software.

Pricing

One price, per club

An audit a year does not need a subscription.

Club

$249/month

One club, once.

The thirteen-question audit
Signed, frozen audits
Arrangement gate, no override

Most clubs

Club plus

$349/month

One club, with updates to the questions.

Everything in Club
Question updates as cases are decided
Export for your adviser

Group

$799/month

Several clubs under one owner.

Everything in Club plus
One copy for each club, each with its own audits
Priority support

One-off price per club. Your bank statement says Rehearsal Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Will it tell us our entertainers are contractors?

No. It tells you what your own answers add up to under the ABC test, and refuses to record a contractor arrangement your own answers do not support.

Why twelve months?

Because clubs change: a new manager adds a late fee, a new sign-up sheet sets minimum shifts. A year-old audit describes a club that may not exist any more.

We are not in California.

Other states use other tests, some stricter and some looser. The questions still cover the facts that decided past cases; ask your adviser how your state weighs them.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is an audit that argues with you. Take the signed audit to somebody who advises on employment law.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo with this year’s audit half done

Last year’s audit said every prong held, and the club recorded “contractors” on it. This year’s, answered by the manager who runs the sign-up sheet, says minimum shifts, set prices, late fees, house fees and tip-outs. The old audit is now fourteen months old — and contractors cannot be recorded again on it.

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