A good sensible law being introduced, wonders will never cease
This is going to be interesting. I wonder if many places with mandatory service charges have been keeping the money back from the serving staff.
The question I often wonder when I hear about something like this in Ireland is, will it be enforced and who will enforce it
So “service charge” to disappear and be replaced by a 10% increase in prices
>”The Government has announced that a new law designed to protect tips received by workers will come into effect on 1 December.
>The Payment of Wages Act gives employees a legal entitlement to receive tips and gratuities paid in electronic form and requires that this money should be paid to workers in a manner that is fair.
>Any charge called a “service charge” or anything that would lead a customer to believe it is a charge for service will have to be distributed to staff as if it were a tip or gratuity received by electronic means.
>The distribution of tips can take into account factors such as the seniority or experience of an employee, the value of sales generated by them or the number of hours worked.”
Most places I worked when I was younger the tips were pooled and then split between all the staff that worked that day.
Always seemed like the fairest way to me. Waiting staff should be paid decent wages in the first place, it’s not like the US where people depend on tips to make up their income. Tips in Ireland are like a bonus for providing a great service, everyone from the KP to head chef are involved in that.
Hidden service charges when paying for things can fuck off.
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Sitting from their thrones and calling the peasants greedy for asking to eat 3meals instead of 1..I hope all publicans that have been stealing their staff tips n gratuities get a taste of karma
Worked in a place and they used to take money out of the tips to cover the till being down. Drove me demented (I’ve since got the fuck out of that scummy industry).
Like how does financial risk land on the at the feet of staff? No transparency, how did we know the till was even actually down? Sheer laziness, the owner never had to bother his hole taking 30 minutes to see where the money might have gone missing? If staff had an inkling to thieve money from the till, surely they were encouraged by the fact they knew tips would cover it no questions asked at the end of the shift?
Fucking disgraceful, taking money off minimum wage staff to cover your own losses. Scum
will this affect online services(for deliverys) for there service charge ?
Fine I’ll just never go to a restaurant or coffee shop 👍
When I was in college I worked in a coffee shop and tips were shared between the staff. However it was also based on hours worked so say if I started in the morning at 10am and then the next person came in at 2pm I would get to keep the tips made for those 4 hours and then anything made while working together was split.
Years later I worked on another coffee shop and tips were split between everyone who was working throughout the day and the manager and owner also got a cut every dah even if they didn’t work that day. Thought it was shit that those working a few short hours got the same tips as those of us working all day. Thank god I got out.
Lol I love how they have a month to figure it out. Implying we know they keep it for themselves the greedy bastards
Always bring cash for tip
At dinner.
Pay for meal with card but always tip in cash
Obviously the danger here being that laws that codify tipping, something that should only be discretionary, could start to introduce the creeping in of lower wages and tip based earnings, like the disastrous situation in the US where they underpay their staff and they basically rely on tips to survive. Fuck that shit.
we have this where i work but the chefs dont get tips, the bar staff takes all tips. i doubt anything will change at all for me lol
F**k that. Pay people what they deserve.
This is hilarious! Everyone knows the service industry is dying because people are not getting paid enough. No one can afford rent anymore on minimum pay but the general public give out how there is such bad service these days. So Leo thinks he doing us all a favour by implementing this law! Go fuck yourself and pay people what they deserve. Sick of this shit! Overworked! Underpaid! No security!
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A good sensible law being introduced, wonders will never cease
This is going to be interesting. I wonder if many places with mandatory service charges have been keeping the money back from the serving staff.
The question I often wonder when I hear about something like this in Ireland is, will it be enforced and who will enforce it
So “service charge” to disappear and be replaced by a 10% increase in prices
>”The Government has announced that a new law designed to protect tips received by workers will come into effect on 1 December.
>The Payment of Wages Act gives employees a legal entitlement to receive tips and gratuities paid in electronic form and requires that this money should be paid to workers in a manner that is fair.
>Any charge called a “service charge” or anything that would lead a customer to believe it is a charge for service will have to be distributed to staff as if it were a tip or gratuity received by electronic means.
>The distribution of tips can take into account factors such as the seniority or experience of an employee, the value of sales generated by them or the number of hours worked.”
Most places I worked when I was younger the tips were pooled and then split between all the staff that worked that day.
Always seemed like the fairest way to me. Waiting staff should be paid decent wages in the first place, it’s not like the US where people depend on tips to make up their income. Tips in Ireland are like a bonus for providing a great service, everyone from the KP to head chef are involved in that.
Hidden service charges when paying for things can fuck off.
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Sitting from their thrones and calling the peasants greedy for asking to eat 3meals instead of 1..I hope all publicans that have been stealing their staff tips n gratuities get a taste of karma
Worked in a place and they used to take money out of the tips to cover the till being down. Drove me demented (I’ve since got the fuck out of that scummy industry).
Like how does financial risk land on the at the feet of staff? No transparency, how did we know the till was even actually down? Sheer laziness, the owner never had to bother his hole taking 30 minutes to see where the money might have gone missing? If staff had an inkling to thieve money from the till, surely they were encouraged by the fact they knew tips would cover it no questions asked at the end of the shift?
Fucking disgraceful, taking money off minimum wage staff to cover your own losses. Scum
will this affect online services(for deliverys) for there service charge ?
Fine I’ll just never go to a restaurant or coffee shop 👍
When I was in college I worked in a coffee shop and tips were shared between the staff. However it was also based on hours worked so say if I started in the morning at 10am and then the next person came in at 2pm I would get to keep the tips made for those 4 hours and then anything made while working together was split.
Years later I worked on another coffee shop and tips were split between everyone who was working throughout the day and the manager and owner also got a cut every dah even if they didn’t work that day. Thought it was shit that those working a few short hours got the same tips as those of us working all day. Thank god I got out.
Lol I love how they have a month to figure it out. Implying we know they keep it for themselves the greedy bastards
Always bring cash for tip
At dinner.
Pay for meal with card but always tip in cash
Obviously the danger here being that laws that codify tipping, something that should only be discretionary, could start to introduce the creeping in of lower wages and tip based earnings, like the disastrous situation in the US where they underpay their staff and they basically rely on tips to survive. Fuck that shit.
we have this where i work but the chefs dont get tips, the bar staff takes all tips. i doubt anything will change at all for me lol
F**k that. Pay people what they deserve.
This is hilarious! Everyone knows the service industry is dying because people are not getting paid enough. No one can afford rent anymore on minimum pay but the general public give out how there is such bad service these days. So Leo thinks he doing us all a favour by implementing this law! Go fuck yourself and pay people what they deserve. Sick of this shit! Overworked! Underpaid! No security!