Members of the Fired Up Stilettos group will protest outside Parliament in Wellington on Sunday, rallying against "wage theft", "widespread labour exploitation" and "labour trafficking".
The protest will be held on Parliament grounds from 1:30pm to 4pm on Sunday, with Green Party MP Jan Logie reported to be speaking at the event, as well as members of the Fired Up Stilettos group.
Logie told Newshub Nation last month New Zealand needs to continue this conversation, "hopefully right across the sex industry to work out the legislative solution.
"I really want the minister to recognise this is urgent and really important.
"People are just trying to pay their bills and they shouldn't be made to feel unsafe," Logie said.
It comes after Wellington strip club Calendar Girls hit the headlines in February when it fired 19 women who had asked for better pay and conditions.
An Auckland dancer revealed to Stuff that ShowGirls, who she worked for, had taken $50 to $100 each shift she worked, as bond money in case they were to fine her, totalling $550 when she left.
But when the dancer contacted the club to get her bond back, she was first told it had been erased from the system, or it had been paid to her, and then, it had been forfeited because she didn't give notice before leaving.
But the dancer argued that telling Stuff: "I said my last day in an email and it was in my contract".
Members of the Fired Up Stilettos group call it "wage theft" and will protest outside Parliament on Sunday, calling for change to other work conditions imposed by management they described as abusive and exploitative.
A petition on the New Zealand Parliament website that has gained 3258 signatures at the time of writing is calling for an established right of adult entertainment workers to bargain collectively while maintaining independent contractor status; outlaw all fines and bonds between employers and contractors; and establish a nationwide mandatory maximum of 20 percent that an employer can take from a contractor's profits.
The reason for the petition is that contractors in adult entertainment are facing widespread labour exploitation.
It's "not due to the adult nature of our work, but because of the lack of legal protections offered to workers who are not employees and because we depend on a venue".
"We have experienced a culture of bullying, income theft, violations of contract law, and sometimes outright labour trafficking. We want nationwide intervention to stop these exploitative practices," the petition said.
Newshub has contacted Show Girls and Calendar Girls.
