You go on the field in full sweats, you don't get paid. I don't care if it's 19 degrees.
Posted on 01/27/2016 1:18:40 PM PST by C19fan
The New York Jets have agreed to pay nearly $324,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by cheerleaders over wages.
The suit was filed in Bergen County, New Jersey, where the NFL team plays.
The 52 women said they were paid $150 per game and issued uniforms. But they said they were not paid for practices and other work and were forced to pay for their makeup, hair care and transportation.
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$150 per game....Do they have a brain in their head? I make that in an hour....and I leave my clothes on.
You go on the field in full sweats, you don't get paid. I don't care if it's 19 degrees.
Yeah, but you probably didn't take your job with the unstated goal of auditioning for a modeling or acting gig. The exposure is the point, and part of the compensation.
Think of them as acting interns.
I’m sorry, what was the question?
There goes the right of contract. They were all adults, they knew what they were doing. Most NFL teams could get lots of attractive women to pay to be cheerleaders. A good number of them marry players.
... and gold diggers.
They are witches!
They could turn you or me into a motel with just one look! ;^}
Well, given Marco Rubio’s choice of mate, maybe one of them hopes to take Melania’s spot. Or Huma’s.
(I picked Trump and HRC given where they reside, not to pick on Trump. And this is all on the cheerleaders. Not Trump. And I am joking anyway.)
Re gold diggers:
I had that thought... like stewardesses and pilots. But, how many cheerleaders snag a high-earning football player? I don’t know the stats, but I’d think both groups are so busy they don’t see much of each other.
Probably $2k each for the chicks, $20k for the lead plaintiff, and $200k for the lawyers. Sounds fair to me.
They certainly do expose themselves ...
I worked with a woman who was a Patriots cheerleader. (A Patriette? Actually, she was the owner’s personal secretary, at a small company, I hardly actually knew her.) She said at the time (1982) that it was against policy for cheerleaders to date players. Even if they don’t get married, dating a player might be worth the risk, since the “job” was more an avocation, with nice benefits, like field side seats and lots of social and professional opportunities.
In all of the NFL games I’ve been to I can’t seem to remember one single cheer. I can remember a few things that a guy three rows behind me said once.
I was a worse employer than the Jets. I didn't issue my statisticians uniforms, not even the women. Plus, like the Jets, I made the women pay for their own makeup, hair care, and transportation. I did pay women from $80 to $200 an hour, depending on performance (yeah, I employed a female mathematician who was well worth $200 an hour, as a consultant for ten or twenty hours at a time in critical situations during her first five years of motherhood). The difference is that once we agreed on a contract, both sides followed it.
These gold diggers should stick to marrying for money instead of suing to change their contract after the fact.
$325K isn’t much when you realize that out of each cheerleader’s share, 25% is taken off the top for the lawyers, followed by 38% off the same top for the feds. They’ve been had, both by the team and by the lawyers.
Of that $150, is part of it for leaving your clothes on?
I don’t believe they seek out the players. I think the cheerleaders are more interested in the big corporate supporters with the private suites.
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