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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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    May 18th 2021, 12:01 PM

    Oh yes, the blasphemous Cyprus song is the controversial one, not the Israeli one about being set free while they are bombing media buildings (I’ll keep banging on this drum about Eurovision!)

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    May 18th 2021, 1:36 PM

    @Paul Cunningham: Were Hamas operating out of that building?

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    May 18th 2021, 2:05 PM

    @Seamus Mac: more likely that there was houmous in that building than Hamas.

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    May 18th 2021, 2:18 PM

    @Paul Cunningham: zzzzzzzzz

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    May 18th 2021, 12:31 PM

    Good riddance to all this when Ireland gets knocked out.

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    May 18th 2021, 12:40 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: not quite fair to the artist and her career. Are you always so sour for the things you’re not forced to watch?

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    May 18th 2021, 1:00 PM

    @Aranthos Faroth: its not a great song tbf, last years was better, can’t see her getting past the semis

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    May 18th 2021, 12:17 PM

    Italy has a bit of a banger there!

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    May 18th 2021, 12:55 PM

    @Darren Sheridan: They nearly always do! The winner of Italy’s Sanremo festival (which Eurovision based itself off) is also their candidate for Eurovision, hence the Italian public choose and they get good entrants. Both times they didn’t enter the Sanremo winner they placed 21st and 16th – go figure.

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    May 18th 2021, 1:20 PM

    @Paul Quinlan: Sounds like they ripped off the riff to Foxey

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    May 18th 2021, 12:49 PM

    Amazing what auto tune and synasiser vocal effects can do…

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    May 18th 2021, 6:33 PM

    I cannot believe no one said “down with this sort of thing” yet! What is wrong with you people!

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    May 18th 2021, 8:04 PM

    @Derek Moran: Thats not the correct episode to use. You should have said ‘play the effin note’ or ‘how about a lovely horse?’

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    May 18th 2021, 11:59 AM

    Sia 2.0

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    May 19th 2021, 9:53 AM

    The Israeli reception will be interesting

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