No distinction is made
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The NLW rate has removed the differential
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TGI Fridays hit with strike ballots over tips and minimum wage abuses 17 April 2018
Waiting staff at two of TGI Fridays restaurants are being balloted from Wednesday 18 April over breaches of the company’s tips and troncs policy and minimum wage abuses.
Unite the union is supporting the workers from the Milton Keynes and Covent Garden restaurants who have decided to ballot for strike action in a wave of rolling strike ballots over the coming months; reportedly because their employer has refused to address their concerns on tips and other issues.
TGI Fridays opened its first UK restaurant in Birmingham in 1986, they now have 83 branches in the UK and this is the first ever strike ballots to hit the American chain.
Last month TGI Fridays was third in the list of firm’s named and shamed by the government for failing to pay workers the legal minimum wage. The company was also found to be using unpaid trial shifts for up to six hours and is also under fire by Unite over its decision to take 40 per cent of waiters’ card tips without proper consultation.
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Guidance updated on calculating the minimum wage 24 April 2018
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has updated their guidance on calculating the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.
This guidance provides practical advice and examples to explain:
• what counts and does not count as pay and working hours for minimum wage purposes • eligibility for the minimum wage • how to calculate the minimum wage • how the minimum wage will be enforced
This is general guidance designed to assist workers and employers in calculating minimum wage entitlement. It may be used to help gain and check understanding of the minimum wage rules. However it does not and cannot provide definitive answers to individual queries. It is not intended to be relied upon in any specific context or a substitute for seeking advice on your specific circumstances, as each case may be different.
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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