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New law requiring tips to be paid to workers to take effect on 1 December

Employees will be legally entitled tips and gratuities paid in electronic form.

WORKERS WILL BE entitled to their tips by law from 1 December, Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Leo Varadkar has announced.

The new law gives employees a legal entitlement to receive tips and gratuities paid in electronic form – such as through debit, credit cards or smart phones.

Employers will also be banned from describing mandatory charges as “service charges” unless they are treated in the same way as tips or gratuities.

There will be four-week period between now and 1 December to provide employers with a lead-in time to prepare for the changes required by the new law.

In a statement, Varadkar said: “Tips can form a significant percentage of a worker’s take-home pay and these changes go a long way to ensuring those tips are distributed to the people who have earned them.

“This new law is a positive step towards improving the rights and entitlements of lower-paid workers as well as providing transparency for customers.

While most employers treat their staff fairly, this will help to stamp out bad practices where they exist and give customers the confidence that gratuities are paid to staff.

A fair distribution of tips will be context-specific, taking into account factors such as as the seniority or experience of an employee, the value of sales generated by them and the number of hours worked.

The legislation requires the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to review the law after it has been in effect for one year.

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    Mute Bryan Kelly
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    Jun 14th 2015, 11:48 AM

    That second pic of the hippo though. Just having a day out in town, munching on some leaves. Magnificent b@st@rd, not giving one single fück.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 11:27 AM
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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:04 PM

    Jesus those pictures! The one with the crocodile in the street below or the one with the lion roaming the street! Seriously scary!

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    Mute Oleksandr Savitskyy
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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:20 PM

    Looks bad enough, 10 people died, only few animals from the Zoo managed to survive and the Zoo is completely destroyed. This Zoo had unique white lions cubs born in 2013 and 2014, looks like not many of them survived. Good few dogs on the pictures are ones saved from the dog shelter which was destroyed. As always in our countries a bit of religion or “some bad miracle” involved, apparently as per Patriarch of Georgia the Zoo was completely destroyed because “it was built by communists on money they earned from selling metal from melted bells taken from churches

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    Mute Jerry Mandering
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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:24 PM

    My thoughts are with you, a magnificent city with lovely people and amazing food. Hopefully the city and the zoo recover quickly.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:35 PM

    Thank you Jerry.

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    Mute Old Gordon
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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:48 PM

    If you want to see the power of the Georgian Patriarch, just wait for Georgian Gay Pride. Scary stuff.

    The animals in that zoo were already in pretty awful conditions. It wasn’t that nice looking at them when I visited! Makes you thankful for how well run Dublin Zoo is.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 11:27 AM

    Jumanji!

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    Jun 14th 2015, 7:58 PM

    It’s your turn to roll the dice :-)

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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:43 PM

    Having visited Tblisi Zoo, I’d hazard a guess that the animals are probably better off roaming the streets than languishing in their diseased and filthy enclosures. The mass infections on the ostriches and other animals were appalling.

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    Mute cosmological
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    Jun 14th 2015, 11:25 AM

    Great story, think I’d watch from indoors.

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    Mute Oleksandr Savitskyy
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    Jun 14th 2015, 11:29 AM

    yep, especially if you can see a 2.5 meters crock is “parked” next to your car.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 10:29 PM

    I’d be more worried about the hippo. Pushing its arse while armed only with a tree branch is not the way to heard Africa’s most lethal animal.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:15 PM

    Like Coppers on a Saturday night

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    Mute nofrills
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    Jun 14th 2015, 1:44 PM

    The photo of a dog carrying a puppy is not from the Tbilisi flood. It existed in April 2015 as an internet meme. Please check: http://tenermascotas.com/tag/perro-ahorita-no-joven/

    The flood looks intense. My thoughs are with Tbilisi people.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 3:41 PM

    The dog picture is from Kashimir in September 2014. Scroll down to the eighth photo.
    http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/09/pictures-kashmir-copes-with-fl-2014916113549864282.html

    Twitter is full of hoaxers. Making sure you are not quoting them is necessary while it’s not always easy.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 4:34 PM

    Simple answer here, stop keeping these animals in zoo’s?

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    Jun 14th 2015, 9:18 PM

    Sorry for the people of Georgia but delighted for all those animals who escaped! Have no time for zoos of any kind. Animals should be in their natural habitat or not at all.

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    Mute Grigori Rasputin
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    Jun 14th 2015, 10:31 PM

    I don’t think the urban streets of Tbilisi are their natural habitat either.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:25 PM

    When watching the Emerging Ireland game from there yesterday, the sun was shining, the players had plenty of drinks breaks… the rain overnight must have been crazy.

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    Jun 14th 2015, 1:24 PM

    remARKable…

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    Jun 14th 2015, 12:53 PM

    Oh my

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    Jun 14th 2015, 6:34 PM

    i thoughts it was odd that that the lead story on the radio was about the fact animals needed to be rescued and then meanwhile 3 zookeepers and 7 other people are dead—surely the dead people is the lead story and then the fact some animals needed to be round up—just seems backwards to me

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    Jun 14th 2015, 6:13 PM

    Jurassic Georgia

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    Jun 14th 2015, 9:45 PM

    Why are the locals Looing at the remains of the Zoo ? Are they looking to get in when it’s rebuilt?

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    Jun 14th 2015, 5:46 PM

    Shamboosly

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    Jun 14th 2015, 10:27 PM

    like half the towns in ireland of a Saturday night..no flood needed !

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    Jun 14th 2015, 11:57 AM

    As that minor character in Southpark said, ‘Simpsons did it!!

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