Employer holding back tips.

[madmum5811]

A pub restaurant chain - our unit was told a fortnight ago, they would not issue our tips or let us have a xmas party unless we reached our targets over xmas. Now they have reneged on the xmas party two years previously. So is this legal, can they withhold our tips if we do not reach the company set targets. Or as some say it is the manager fiddling us. We have issues with our hours every month and caught one manager fiddling shifts by reducing them a couple of hours here and there soon mount up.

So what do we do. This does not seem fair, we work so hard on party nights, I am talking a 200 plus cover restaurant, overlooking a marina where some folk are quaffing champagne like water, so we are not in a poor area.

I am asking on behalf of my daughter who really could do with the tip money at xmas. She is not bothered about a mythical post xmas party which never happens anyway she says.

Take the thread down, then we can all go on TripAdvisor or Trustpilot and mention how disgusted we were upon finding that staff don't get the tips left for them😁
Worth a try I suppose.

It's stealing really. They should have a 'No Tips' policy, to be fair.

Hospitality is notorious for this. But also super-easy to get into. Your DD must know she could sign up with an agency, even via an app, and be in a new job by Monday.

If knocking hours off takes them below minimum wage then they are definitely breaking the law.

How would knocking hours off take them below minimum wage? Adding hours on would.

If you work 30 hours but get paid for 25 at minimum wage then you aren't being paid minimum wage.