{"id":11668,"date":"2011-09-08T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11668"},"modified":"2011-09-08T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:06:50","slug":"kerzner-being-sued-for-deceptive-gratuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/kerzner-being-sued-for-deceptive-gratuity","title":{"rendered":"Kerzner Being Sued For &#8216;Deceptive Gratuity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerzner International is vigorously fighting &#8211; and denying &#8211; a class action lawsuit alleging that it engaged in &#8220;unfair and deceptive practices&#8221; relating to the &#8216;mandatory housekeeping gratuity and utility service fee&#8217; it charges Atlantis guests, Tribune Business can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>An amended complaint, filed in the US District Court for the southern district of Florida on June 30, 2011, by a Jennifer Costa on behalf of the class action plaintiffs alleges that the &#8216;mandatory&#8217; fee is &#8220;deceptive&#8221; because Kerzner International does not pass all of it on to either housekeeping staff or to cover utility fees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By labelling the gratuity and utility charge something that it is not, Kerzner is deceiving consumers into paying more for their hotel room than they bargained,&#8221; the class action lawsuit alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerzner International is fighting claims that it has engaged in &#8220;unfair and deceptive practices&#8221; &#8211; the basis of a class action lawsuit against the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,25,94,33],"class_list":["post-11668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-courts","tag-hotels","tag-legal","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}