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Gotta tip ’em all? Understanding the UK’s new gratuity rules
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Deborah Margolis
Deborah Margolis, Senior Associate at GQ|Littler

The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 comes into force on 1 October 2024. Most likely to impact the hospitality sector, the new law regulates how employers allocate tips, gratuities, and service charges among workers  and eligible agency workers, and provides that such employer-received payments are given to workers and eligible agency workers in full and allocated in a fair and transparent way.