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Hospitality businesses to be banned from taking a cut of staff tips

24 September 2021 by

Hospitality businesses are to be banned from taking a cut of staff tips or service charge under new laws.

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Government set to announce changes to tipping laws

20 September 2021 by

The government will soon make an announcement on changes to the law around how hospitality tips are handled.

Tom Kitchin Group appoints consultancy to 'investigate complaints' and overhauls tips system News

Tom Kitchin Group appoints consultancy to 'investigate complaints' and overhauls tips system

19 July 2021 by
Workers to protest lack of government action on tipping in Westminster today News

Workers to protest lack of government action on tipping in Westminster today

15 July 2021 by
Expert warns of 'unintended consequences' of tipping legislation News

Expert warns of 'unintended consequences' of tipping legislation

28 June 2021 by
MP seeks to bring tipping legislation back to the forefront News

MP seeks to bring tipping legislation back to the forefront

28 June 2021 by

How to get ready for the cost of the new tips bill Advice

How to get ready for the cost of the new tips bill

17 June 2021 by

Operators will soon have to pass on tips to staff without deductions, so it will pay[...]

Hospitality workers could see massive financial hit if tipping becomes the latest pandemic victim News

Hospitality workers could see massive financial hit if tipping becomes the latest pandemic victim

15 April 2021 by

Sacha Lord has launched calls for an industry-wide fair tipping policy, warning that ​a forecasted decline[...]

Cashless tipping system Tipjar cleared for use by HMRC News

Cashless tipping system Tipjar cleared for use by HMRC

16 February 2021 by

Cashless tipping platform Tipjar has been cleared for use by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in[...]

Covid-19 accelerates expansion for cashless tipping platform Tipjar News

Covid-19 accelerates expansion for cashless tipping platform Tipjar

20 August 2020 by

The rise of delivery and demise of cash prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic have served up[...]

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Minute on the clock: Ed Thaw, Leroy

Leroy in east London’s Shoreditch has joined other restaurants in scrapping the discretionary service charge in favour of building the cost of service into the price of a meal."

24 July 2020 by
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Leroy the latest restaurant to call time on discretionary service charge

07 July 2020
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Leroy in east London has become the latest restaurant to stop adding a discretionary service charge to bills, explaining “if you want to eat in a quality place it will cost you more, but you will also be doing better[...]

Reduced furlough and lack of tronc could see wages fall below 60% News

Reduced furlough and lack of tronc could see wages fall below 60%

28 May 2020
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Concerns have been raised that furloughed hospitality workers could see their pay fall below 60% if the exclusion of tronc is exacerbated by the chancellor tapering off support.

Will furlough put paid to the tronc? Business

Will furlough put paid to the tronc?

22 May 2020 by

With the coronavirus furlough scheme leaving some waiting staff out of pocket, is it time to[...]

MPs from across political parties support calls for tronc to be included in furlough pay News

MPs from across political parties support calls for tronc to be included in furlough pay

19 May 2020 by

MPs from across political parties have supported calls for tronc, service charge and tips to be[...]

Jeremy King launches voucher fundraiser to support staff following exclusion of tronc from furlough pay News

Jeremy King launches voucher fundraiser to support staff following exclusion of tronc from furlough pay

07 May 2020 by

Jeremy King has launched a voucher fundraiser to support employees who have been left in a[...]

Industry leaders tell chancellor exclusion of tronc in furlough pay causing ‘real and serious hardship’ News

Industry leaders tell chancellor exclusion of tronc in furlough pay causing ‘real and serious hardship’

06 May 2020 by

Industry leaders, including Hawksmoor’s Will Beckett and Jeremy King of Corbin & King, have signed a[...]

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Government decision to exclude tronc from CJRS based on ‘completely mistaken assumption’

The government has been accused of basing its exclusion of tronc and service charge from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on a “completely mistaken assumption”. "

01 May 2020 by
Almost 6,000 sign petition calling on government to include tronc in furlough wages News

Almost 6,000 sign petition calling on government to include tronc in furlough wages

14 April 2020
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Almost 6,000 people have signed a petition calling for the government to include tronc, tips and service charge payments within the average wages of furloughed employees.

Government commits to banning employer tip deductions News

Government commits to banning employer tip deductions

14 October 2019
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The government committed to deliver new legislation to ban employer deductions from tips in today’s Queen’s Speech.

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