Hospitality

Two men who claimed they were denied entry to a Sydney nightclub because it was "Asian night" will walk away with $15,000 after winning a racial discrimination case against the venue.

A court has ordered the lead applicant in a $129 million underpayment class action against Merivale to fill gaps in his case, after the hospitality giant complained there was insufficient information as to how the employee's claims related to other workers.

A restaurant director will have to pay over $33,000 in unpaid tax after an appeals court found that despite a prolonged period of severe illness it was still reasonable to expect that management of the business and the fulfillment of tax obligations would continue.

Hotel booking aggregator Trivago misled consumers about its cheapest price promise by arranging its listings according to payments it received instead of the actual hotel room price, a court has found.

Canberra-based plaintiffs law firm Adero Law has hit back at claims by hospitality giant Merivale that their 3,000 employees would not benefit from a Fair Work class action seeking $129 million in allegedly unpaid wages, saying the concerns were "meaningless".

A Melbourne-based law firm was negligent when it advised the owners of Barflys bar and cafe in Bourke Street to settle a case against its landlords for $341,500 because of changes to the law on retail leases, an appeals court has found.

The Melbourne restaurant group founded by celebrity chef George Calombaris has back-paid $7.8 million to more than 500 workers, after a Fair Work investigation uncovered significant staff underpayments.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is suing a sushi operator in a case which will, for the first time, utilise laws that put the onus of proof on employers to disprove underpayment allegations.

A franchisee's $6.1 million case against Domino's Pizza accusing the fast food chain of misleading him about the sales he could expect from his two Surfers Paradise stores has been resolved out of court.

Sydney hospitality giant Merivale is facing a potential class action after the Fair Work Commission terminated an expired enterprise agreement, which had its army of staff on salaries well below the industry award rate.