Tips and tipping
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Trade union Unite has joined forces with the Daily Mirror to launch a campaign urging restaurants and hotels to sign a “fair tips charter”.
Posted: 15 May 2008 | 07:00
The Unite union is today stepping up its campaign for a fair distribution of tips with another protest against Pizza Express.
Posted: 18 April 2008 | 11:44
Gordon Ramsay may have bought himself his own chef academy recently but for those already in the industry aspiring to great things time is running out to enter the Craft Guild of Chefs Graduate awards. So chop, chop.
Posted: 11 April 2008 | 17:57
The Government has given its clearest signal yet that it may get involved in the contentious but legal practice of using waiting staff’s tips to top up the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
Posted: 07 April 2008 | 11:32
The best from the hospitality web including Michael Jackson's secret hotel hideaway.
Posted: 31 March 2008 | 11:39
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: BAA to sell 33 properties to Arora; Fifteen training “hit-and-miss”, says report: Starbucks ordered to pay out $100m in withheld tips.
Posted: 25 March 2008 | 10:55
With the global credit crunch beginning to affect consumer and investor confidence, the Government finding more ways of making life harder for hospitality and tourism operators, plus the summer floods, 2007 was an action-packed year. Angela Frewin takes a look back
Posted: 19 December 2007 | 12:39
Waiting staff are the lowest paid employees in the UK, according to new analysis from the GMB.
Posted: 04 December 2007 | 16:59
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is to launch an appeal against a ruling that said non-cash tips could be counted towards the minimum wage.
Posted: 31 October 2007 | 07:00
Union leaders are today launching a campaign calling on the Government to close the loophole that allows hospitality employers to use tips to make up the minimum wage.
Posted: 27 September 2007 | 11:07
Restaurateurs will not be forced to pay out thousands in back payments after a tribunal threw out an HM Revenue & Customs claim that a London restaurant group had ripped off its employees by not paying them the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
Posted: 07 September 2007 | 10:19
Manhattan restaurant chain Nobu is being sued in a dispute over wages with two former employees in the latest of a series of legal battles involving high-profile restaurants in New York.
Posted: 06 August 2007 | 12:00
A former manageress at an award-winning hotel has admitted cheating workmates out of £3,700 in tips.
Posted: 28 February 2007 | 15:47
Gordon Ramsay is allegedly facing a walkout by staff of his New York restaurant, which is set to open next week.
Posted: 10 November 2006 | 16:32
A recent survey by restaurant booking service Top Table found that 90% of diners believed restaurants should not automatically add a service charge to the bill. David Moore, proprietor of the Michelin-star Pied á Terre restaurant in London, gives an insider’s view of the issue.
Posted: 06 November 2006 | 14:54
HM Revenue and Customs has finally released its new E24 guidelines on tronc – and is a huge retreat from its previous position.
Posted: 26 October 2006 | 08:00
It’s a retreat the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Napoleon decided that Moscow in winter was somewhat chilly. After months of soul searching, legal advice, re-writes, rumour and speculation, the latest version of E24 (Mark 3) has finally been published.
Posted: 26 October 2006 | 08:00
The Revenue's U-turn over the tax payable on staff tips has been hailed as a victory for common sense but has triggered renewed calls for compensation from businesses previously targeted.
Posted: 26 October 2006 | 08:00
HM Revenue & Customs has been accused of making a huge retreat over its new E24 guidelines on tronc.
Posted: 19 October 2006 | 17:13
Putting the customer under pressure to pay extra for service is simply unacceptable, says restaurateur and consultant Simon Wright
Posted: 01 June 2006 | 00:00
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