Fair Work is investigating Merivale following fresh claims the hospitality giant underpaid and exploited vulnerable workers, including eight migrant chefs who say they were recruited from Mexico under false pretences.

The Fair Work investigation follows allegations by this masthead, Good Food and 60 Minutes that Merivale is still ordering staff to work more than full-time hours, as the company plots a huge expansion into Melbourne through a $55 million, 11-storey complex in the CBD and a new spa, hotel and nightclub in the heart of Sydney.

New video of an altercation between police and pro-Palestine activists in which a former Greens candidate sustained a serious eye injury shows a protester being grabbed after questioning what legislation officers were citing to issue move-on orders.

Protesters gathered outside SEC Plating, which they say supplies plating services for F-35 jets used by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), on Lakemba Street in Belmore on Friday.