Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2022-07-13
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Catherine Murphy (SD), Kildare North

I picked that tweet up in exactly the same way. I would have been one of the people to assume that, for example, a service charge was the same as making it easy to give a tip. I think many people have been under the same impression. I picked that tweet up in exactly the same way, in that it was a loophole. It is important that there is the prospect of reviewing this. I also would have thought that every restaurant wants to be full. They only have so many tables and chairs. I would have thought it was an advantage to have a booking for 30 people. One would nearly give a discount to fill the restaurant, if one was to be guaranteed that.
There can be no-shows and things like that and it is a whole other day's work but I would hate to think this would be trying to get around that or be a loophole, and that was how I picked it up as well.

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Sitting date: 2022-07-13