Therium is funding a class action on behalf of a large group of employees and former employees against Dominos Pizza Enterprises Limited (Dominos). The case alleges that Dominos, as the head franchisor, made alleged systemic false or misleading representations to its franchisee network in relation to wage rates and conditions applicable to employees of the franchisees from in or around 2010, which resulted in widespread underpayment of franchisee staff, predominantly pizza delivery drivers, from that time until 2018.
The Dominos Pizza lawsuit is one of the largest class actions brought to date on behalf of an employee group in Australia and has gained significant media attention.
Without Therium funding the Dominos class action, Dominos employees numbering in the thousands, would be unlikely to have been able to seek compensation for their alleged underpayment.
Class Action / Employment / Collective Redress / Labour
Food & Beverage / Retail
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Therium provided a multi-million-dollar portfolio facility secured by an accomplished litigation firm’s extensive roster of employee misclassification cases. The targets of the suits were massively successful household names at the forefront of the “gig economy,” whose outsized revenues created a significant power imbalance against individual workers seeking to enforce basic employment rights. The law firm utilized Therium’s funding both to retain new clients and to fund litigation against the offending employers. This investment highlights how Therium’s capital can be strategically deployed to facilitate redress for many thousands of wronged individuals and to balance the scales when going up against litigation adversaries with immense financial resources.
This case is significant because Therium provided seed capital to a new law firm that utilized a novel legal approach to generate significant recoveries for those who suffered serious economic harm.
Therium’s solution was to work with the lawyers, marketing team, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful execution of a legal approach which (although substantively sound) had not yet been tested in the courts.
Portfolio Facility / Breach of Contract / Employment Labour / Law Firm Funding
Legal
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Therium is financing equal pay claims for supermarket workers for breach of ‘equality’ term implied into employment contracts via the Equality Act 2010. The claimants who are mostly female, are claiming for pay equal with their male counterparts.
The claim against this supermarket is one of a handful of claims against UK supermarkets for unfair treatment of female employees, having received lower pay despite their work being of equal value to that of male colleagues. The claim against Asda, the most advanced of the claims against UK supermarkets, won a Supreme Court ruling in Q1 2021 determining that lower-paid shop staff (who are mostly women) can compare themselves with higher paid warehouse workers (who are mostly men). The claim seeks to compensate over 10,000 employees that have been underpaid but also helps disincentivise UK employers from breaching the Equality Act 2010.
Therium is providing finance via a law firm funding arrangement.
Employment / Equal Pay / Breach of Contract / Class Action / Group Litigation / Law Firm Funding / Collective Redress
Food & Beverage / Retail
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Therium funded a breach of contract and wrongful dismissal claim brought by the former President and CEO of the claimant business against his former employer, a food supply company based in Canada.
The claimant found himself in a contest against his deep-pocketed employer without the financial means to pursue his claims. Litigation finance allowed him to pursue the claim, facilitating access to justice.
Litigation finance from Therium allowed the claimant to pursue the claim, facilitating access to justice.
Employment / Breach of Contract
Food & Beverage
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