Employment Tribunal Rules Against Annabel's

The Telegraph reports:

The legendary Mayfair nightclub Annabel's faces a six-figure claim for using the tips from its wealthy clientele to pay its waiting staff the national minimum wage.

An Employment Appeals Tribunal has ruled that the club was wrong to give the cash directly to staff to top up their hourly pay to the legal minimum between 1999 and 2003.

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Owner of Annabel's Has Died

Mark Birley, the founder and owner of the legendary Mayfair members' club Annabel's, has died following a stroke at the age of 77.

He founded the world famous venue - based in Berkeley Square - in 1963, and named it after his wife of the time, Annabel.

Read Mark Birley's obituary at Times Online