Waiting staffs' anger on first anniversary of tips’ law change
1st October 2010
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Unite the union will mark the first anniversary of the change in
the tips’ law to demonstrate that waiters and waitresses are still
not getting fair tips.
The union has found that one year on there are still too many
employers who regard tips as a subsidy for low pay and who see the
tips and service charge money left by customers as a pot of cash to
which they are free to help themselves to.
DATE: Friday 1 October 2010
TIME:
11am
ADDRESS: Department for Business,
Innovation & Skills (BIS), 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H
0ET
Waiting staff will carry placards and wear t-shirts outside the
government’s business department in their campaign to demonstrate
that the tips system in restaurants, hotels and bars still denies
them the fair tips they fought for.
Friday 1 October marks one year since the government was forced
to close the loophole in minimum wage legislation which allowed
bosses to take the tips customers left for staff, but the situation
has not improved for many waiters and waitresses.
ENDS
For more information please contact: Saba Mozakka, Unite press
office on: 07768 693 953
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