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TheFrenchun

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Food chain using tips to pay waiting staff.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/j ... rge-strada

I though using tips to pay minimum wage to staff was already illegal?

Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:22 pm

Spreadie

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Re: Food chain using tips to pay waiting staff.


	TheFrenchun wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/jun/07/waiters-wages-cash-service-charge-strada I though using tips to pay minimum wage to staff was already illegal?

I imagine it is now - that article was published in June 2009.

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Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:50 pm

TheFrenchun

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Re: Food chain using tips to pay waiting staff.

Spreadie wrote:


	TheFrenchun wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/jun/07/waiters-wages-cash-service-charge-strada I though using tips to pay minimum wage to staff was already illegal?

I imagine it is now - that article was published in June 2009.

How odd, it just cropped up on the front page of the Gruniad. bloody Gruniad :lol:

Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:51 pm

Spreadie

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Re: Food chain using tips to pay waiting staff.

Happens on the BBC website almost daily.

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Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:56 pm

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Re: Food chain using tips to pay waiting staff.


	Spreadie wrote: Happens on the BBC website almost daily.

Happened to me a few times.

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Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:56 pm

l3v1ck

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Re: Food chain using tips to pay waiting staff.


	TheFrenchun wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/jun/07/waiters-wages-cash-service-charge-strada I though using tips to pay minimum wage to staff was already illegal?

Yep. I'm sure some places were taken to court for that as soon as the minimum wage was introduced.

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