CAN BOSS KEEP MY TIPS?

Q£1.5BN FOR YOU DUP’s Foster I work as a waitress for a wellknown restaurant chain. Is my employer allowed to keep my tips? Sam, Brighton Alys says: The current legal position on tips is confusing and often unfair. Where it’s a cash tip given voluntarily (i.e. it isn’t a charge the customer is required to pay under the restaurant’s terms), this is a payment to the waiter or waitress themselves and it should belong to the worker. The employer shouldn’t be keeping any of this type of tip, but we know some unscrupulous employers do.

Discretionary service charges, compulsory cover or service charges, plus any payments made on cards, are paid and belong to the employer. Employers aren’t currently legally obliged to pass any of this type of tip or payment on to their workers and, where they do, there is currently no obligation to share this in a fair way or to prevent unfair deductions being made.

If you’re not getting Fair Tips, share your story with Unite via unitetheunion.org/fairtips – or better still join us!

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