Tips and Tipping

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How to share tips fairly and transparently

21 March 2024 by

Businesses need to make decisions about how tips will be allocated and – crucially – ensure all staff know about it, says Holly Freuchen

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Sign up for The Caterer's Tipping and Payment Summit on 18 April

22 February 2024 by

Attend The Caterer’s virtual event to hear how businesses can ensure they are compliant with the upcoming changes to tipping legislation.

Tipping legislation a step closer to becoming law News

Tipping legislation a step closer to becoming law

20 January 2023 by

A bill that will ban hospitality businesses from holding back staff tips and place strict controls[...]

Five things to be aware of ahead of new tipping legislation becoming law News

Five things to be aware of ahead of new tipping legislation becoming law

19 January 2023 by

With new legislation around the management and distribution of tips and service charge expected to achieve[...]

Cameron House staff win over £130,000 in backdated tips News

Cameron House staff win over £130,000 in backdated tips

27 October 2022 by

Hospitality workers at a top Scottish hotel have won around £138,000 in backdated tips following a[...]

Wake-up call: Get ready for the new tipping legislation Restaurant News

Wake-up call: Get ready for the new tipping legislation

11 August 2022 by

The government is planning to make it illegal for businesses to take a cut of staff[...]

Government moves forward with plans to ban operators taking a cut of staff tips News

Government moves forward with plans to ban operators taking a cut of staff tips

15 July 2022

A bill banning hospitality businesses from taking a cut of staff tips has had its second reading in parliament, despite having been dropped from the Queen’s Speech just two months ago.

What now for the tips legislation? News

What now for the tips legislation?

03 June 2022

It may have been dropped by government, but that doesn’t mean that self-regulation of fair distribution isn’t possible, says Peter Davies

Tipping law dropped after Employment Bill excluded from Queen's Speech News

Tipping law dropped after Employment Bill excluded from Queen's Speech

10 May 2022 by

A bill that would have banned hospitality businesses from taking a cut of staff tips or[...]

Government rumoured to have scrapped planned changes to tipping laws News

Government rumoured to have scrapped planned changes to tipping laws

05 May 2022 by

Speculation is growing that the government plans to backtrack on plans to ban hospitality businesses taking[...]

Wadadli Kitchen ‘embarrassed’ and 'deeply saddened' over late tips payments News

Wadadli Kitchen ‘embarrassed’ and 'deeply saddened' over late tips payments

28 January 2022 by

Garfield Hackett, director of Wadadli Kitchen, has said he is “deeply saddened by letting our staff[...]

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

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[...]

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

The Tom Kitchin Group has appointed an independent, external HR consultancy to “investigate any complaints” and “take appropriate action” following accusations by former staff of assault, harassment and bullying.

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

Workers in the hospitality sector will stage a protest outside the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy in London at midday today (15 July) in protest at the government’s failure to introduce long-promised fair tips legislation.

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