Australia's Domino's Pizza considering appeal options after class action court ruling

July 23 (Reuters) - Domino's ‌Pizza Enterprises ​said ​on Thursday it was considering an appeal after the Federal Court found ‌the company made misleading representations about the ⁠application of certain enterprise agreements.

Here are the details:

• A ‌former worker commenced the ‌proceeding as lead applicant on behalf of an alleged group of Domino's franchisee employees who ​worked as delivery drivers or in-store workers between June 2013 and January 2018.

• The ⁠Federal Court on Wednesday found the pizza chain's historical representations about ​the application of certain enterprise agreements misleading, ruling that the coverage clause in ​a 2005 enterprise agreement ‌was invalid.

• The workers had alleged they should have been paid under ⁠the Fast Food Industry Award 2010 instead of under enterprise agreements that Domino's had advised applied across ⁠its corporate and franchised stores.

• The court assessed the ​former worker's loss at about A$11,869 ($8,326.10), plus interest, after finding that Domino's conduct caused the former worker to ‌suffer loss through underpayment.

• Domino's said its potential wider exposure to other ‌group members remained "highly uncertain and unquantifiable", and added ⁠it was assessing ‌possible grounds for ​appeal.

($1 = 1.4255 Australian dollars)

(Reporting by Keshav Singh Chundawat in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane ‌Venkatraman)

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