"UK ministers are shelving plans to ensure that workers keep their tips, despite having first promised to do six years ago, in a move that has angered trade unions.
Paul Scully, the business minister, announced in September that the government would take action to make it illegal for employers to withhold tips from workers. The plan was designed to prevent restaurants from the increasingly common practice of taking a share of tips rather than passing them on to staff.
The idea had been on the back burner since it was first put forward by Sajid Javid when he was business secretary in 2016. But government insiders say that the idea has been dropped from the Queen’s Speech on May 10."
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"Some restaurant chains treat their employees fairly and split the tips given to waiting staff in order to share them with supervisors and kitchen staff. But unions say that increasing numbers of businesses add a discretionary service charge on to customers’ bills and keeping all or part of the service charges, without passing them on to staff.
Scully announced in September that his plan would help about 2m UK workers retain their tips: “Customers will know tips are going to the worker for a fair day’s work,” he said.
At the time the government said it was taking action because the shift towards a cashless society — with 80 per cent of tipping now taking place on cards — had led to more “dodgy tipping practices”
Paul Scully, the business minister, announced in September that the government would take action to make it illegal for employers to withhold tips from workers. The plan was designed to prevent restaurants from the increasingly common practice of taking a share of tips rather than passing them on to staff.
The idea had been on the back burner since it was first put forward by Sajid Javid when he was business secretary in 2016. But government insiders say that the idea has been dropped from the Queen’s Speech on May 10."
ft.com
"Some restaurant chains treat their employees fairly and split the tips given to waiting staff in order to share them with supervisors and kitchen staff. But unions say that increasing numbers of businesses add a discretionary service charge on to customers’ bills and keeping all or part of the service charges, without passing them on to staff.
Scully announced in September that his plan would help about 2m UK workers retain their tips: “Customers will know tips are going to the worker for a fair day’s work,” he said.
At the time the government said it was taking action because the shift towards a cashless society — with 80 per cent of tipping now taking place on cards — had led to more “dodgy tipping practices”
