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Paul Chappell
If you’re running a restaurant, bar, or any business where tipping is common, you might consider adding something about these tips to your employment contract. On the surface, this seems like a good way of making your policy clear to...
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Paul Chappell
What is a fair allocation of tips policy between employees? Is there a definition of fairness? Legislation is now in place stating that tips must be fairly distributed by an employer or Troncmaster between employees. How fairness is defined in...
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Paul Chappell
The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 now in place, not only addresses how employers must proceed and process tips received from customers for employees but also includes specific reference to agency workers engaged within hospitality. This has proved to...
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Paul Chappell
What we know (and importantly, what no one knows yet!) The Government issued the Code of Practice (CoP) to accompany the Employment (Allocation of Tips) legislation on 29 July 2024. The legislation set out the intention of the law, the...
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Alison Clynes
Why do you need a tronc scheme? Tips, service charges, gratuities, call them what you will, they are an established part of the hospitality sector and a much-needed source of income for hospitality workers. When tips were given in cash,...