Minimum wage
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Topics covered in our weekly briefing include: government gets tough on minimum wage offenders; fewer jobless than expected; and workers want to move around.
Posted: 22 January 2010 | 14:39
The Government has created a team to crack down on employers who continually refuse to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage (NMW). The hospitality industry is a persistent offender when it comes to underpaying staff, with HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) recouping more than £640,000...
Posted: 05 January 2010 | 14:11
Topics covered in our weekly briefing include:New Year's Eve VAT hangover could cost businesses dearly; and free customer service and marketing masterclasses.
Posted: 18 December 2009 | 13:57
Higher pay awards confidence; employment rights unknown; and bad customer service deterrent.
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 12:33
Topics covered in our weekly briefing: minimum wage increase; sickness absence to decline.
Posted: 09 October 2009 | 17:59
The issue of tips in restaurants has been thrust back into the public consciousness with the launch of the Independent’s fair tips campaign and continuation of the Daily Mirror backed Unite union’s call for fair tips.
Posted: 15 September 2009 | 18:47
Every week in the Caterer poll the industry delivers its verdict on the big stories of the day. Kerstin Kühn rounds up the results of the last six months.
Posted: 21 August 2009 | 10:15
The British Hospitality Association has urged restaurants to be open with customers in its first code of practice on discretionary tips and service charges.
The code, produced in conjunction with the Department for Business and issued this week, urges restaurants and hotels ...
Posted: 20 July 2009 | 17:32
I'm starting with the man in the mirror; I'm asking him to change his ways; And no message could have been any clearer; If you wanna make the world a better place; Take a look at yourself and then make a change.
Posted: 26 June 2009 | 15:18
London Mayor Boris Johnson has called on hospitality operators in the capital to pay the London Living Wage.
Speaking at the British Hospitality Association (BHA) Annual Lunch held at the Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane, the mayor made the case for adopting the wage in front of an audience ...
Posted: 26 June 2009 | 07:30
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is urging all restaurants to adopt a new Code of Practice on how to distribute service charges. The Code has been developed in conjunction with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to back up new legislation banning ...
Posted: 25 June 2009 | 18:11
London Citizens and the Unite union are to protest later today outside the British Hospitality Association’s (BHA) Annual Luncheon against hospitality operators’ refusal to adopt the London Living Wage. London Mayor Boris Johnson will urge those at the lunch to voluntarily adopt the wage ...
Posted: 24 June 2009 | 07:00
Caterer Best for Business participant the Taverners pub in Godshill on the Isle of Wight has been recommended in the Guardian’s "Guide to Summer Pub"s, which isn't bad going. For all the latest in the series see our Best for Business page.
Posted: 19 June 2009 | 14:20
Some hotel operators are regularly paying staff less than the national minimum wage, running the risk of heavy fines, Caterer has learnt. Sources have said that abuse of the minimum wage – currently £5.73 an hour for those aged 22 and over – is “rife” in certain areas, with salaried hotel staff ...
Posted: 18 June 2009 | 07:00
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: New tipping laws may not benefit staff; Pret and Itsu ban bluefin tuna ; Starwood seeks €300m for landmark Paris hotel; profits fall at Firmdale Hotels;; detective seeks male partners of missing chef
Posted: 08 June 2009 | 10:20
So it really never simply rains if you're a pub operator, it pours and then some. Compounding a quite miserable few months for the pub trade, MPs this week accused the likes of Enterprise Inns and Punch Taverns of bullying their tenants. Ouch, that's going ...
Posted: 15 May 2009 | 15:43
Hospitality operators will have to pay all staff 22 years old and over a minimum of £5.80 an hour from October, after the Government announced a modest rise in the national minimum wage. The move – a 7p rise on the current level - follows last week’s ...
Posted: 12 May 2009 | 12:24
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Government likely to defy business leaders on minimum wage rise; Enterprise Inns boss defends beer tie against critics; MPs likely to call for loosening of beer tie
Posted: 11 May 2009 | 10:36
The Government’s decision to outlaw the practice of using tips to make up minimum wage from October has been welcomed by consumer groups and unions.
Posted: 07 May 2009 | 07:00
Using tips to make up staff pay to minimum wage levels will be outlawed from October this year, it was announced today.
Posted: 06 May 2009 | 10:28
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