Business hospitality
We had picked up rumours of corporate membership of lap-dancing clubs and the related issues of discrimination against women managers if they did not want to attend business meetings/hospitality events in such venues. However it was very difficult to find any evidence of this, until Harriet Harman (Equalities Minister) began to look at the tax implications, and the loophole in the Licensing Act that allows such clubs to be part of the leisure industry and not the sex industry.
A senior female executive at a City bank headed by the Trade Minister was a victim of sexism in a department where meetings ended up in strip clubs, an employment tribunal was told.
The Lap Dancing Association
and its Code of Practice
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