VoyeurDorm is in a legal brawl with two former models whom the Website has countersued for violating non-compete clauses in their former contracts, after the models sued the site for stiffing them on overtime.
The battle began when former models Laura Spell and Stephanie Piccolo filed their suit in May, claiming they earned only a fixed weekly salary despite working more than 40 hours a week regularly, according to the Tampa Tribune. A federal judge ruled in August that the suit should be a "collective" action, the paper said, and VoyeurDorm countersued shortly afterward, saying Spell and Piccolo's contracts barred them from working for other adult Websites for two years after leaving VoyeurDorm.
But Spell and Piccolo went to work for Voyeur Cam Friends after leaving VoyeurDorm in March, which VoyeurDorm argues breached the non-compete clause.
Thirteen other women signed onto the Spell/Piccolo suit since the "collective" action ruling, the Tribune said. VoyeurDorm is trying to show the models received "extraordinary and specialized training in a rather unique and narrowly tailored field," according to papers filed in the case, but the National Workrights Institute scoffed at that statement. "All these girls are selling," said the body's president, Lewis Maltby, to the Tribune, "is their beautiful bodies, and they didn't get that from their employers."
The NWI argues that non-compete clauses are appropriate when workers get extraordinary training or are privy to complicated and secret company information, especially in the high-tech world, the paper said. The VoyeurDorm countersuit did not specify exactly what specialized training the models did receive, the paper added.
Spell and Piccolo filed a countersuit to the non-compete violation suit in early September, the Tribune said, claiming VoyeurDorm sued only to retaliate for the overtime suit. And if the VoyeurDorm suit should prove to be retaliatory, the models' countersuit claimed, it would violate the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. A circuit court judge threw out the models' countersuit November 5, but gave them the right to refile it, the newspaper added.
