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Tips and gratuities

The payment of tips, gratuities, cover and service charges is prevalent in a number of sectors, including hospitality and the restaurant business.

UK employment law provides that payments paid by the employer to the worker representing amounts paid by customers by way of a service charge, tip, gratuity or cover charge cannot be used to make up the national minimum wage.

If an employee’s basic pay is at the national minimum wage level, any tips paid through the employer’s payroll must be paid in addition to the employee’s basic pay.


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    Tipping Bill receives Royal Assent

    by Jo Faragher 3 May 2023
    by Jo Faragher 3 May 2023

    The bill makes it unlawful for employers to withhold tips from employees, and introduces a new statutory code of practice.

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    Tips and neonatal leave move step closer to becoming law

    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Jan 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Jan 2023

    MPs have voted through the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill and the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill.

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    • Hospitality

    Tips to go to workers, not businesses: UK government will legislate

    by Adam McCulloch 24 Sep 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 24 Sep 2021

    Rise of card payments and perceived low pay behind move to make it illegal for businesses to keep workers' tips.

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    Law banning employers from keeping staff tips to be announced

    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2021
    by Personnel Today 20 Sep 2021

    Restaurant staff will be entitled to keep 100% of their tips under a new law expected to be announced this week.

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    Plans to ban employers from taking staff tips announced

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Oct 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Oct 2018

    New legislation to ensure that tips go to workers and not to their employers will be introduced in a crackdown...

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    Will the Government’s planned restaurant tips law end unfair tipping practices?

    by Richard Devall 9 Jun 2016
    by Richard Devall 9 Jun 2016

    Plans to increase transparency for consumers and employees in relation to tipping have recently been announced by the business secretary,...

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    Restaurant tipping practices face regulation

    by Rob Moss 3 May 2016
    by Rob Moss 3 May 2016

    Service charges that are automatically added to bills in restaurants could be a thing of the past under government plans...

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    Tipping point: where employers stand on gratuities and service charges

    by Rory Brogan 10 Nov 2015
    by Rory Brogan 10 Nov 2015

    Big-name restaurants have come under attack recently for their unfair tipping policies, ranging from allegations that management take a percentage...

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    Restaurant tipping practices to be investigated

    by Rob Moss 1 Sep 2015
    by Rob Moss 1 Sep 2015

    Business secretary Sajid Javid has launched an investigation into the abuse of restaurant tipping, following media reports of hospitality employers...

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