Employers in BC’s service industry will no longer be allowed to keep any amount of customer tips collected by their employees. The new rule was announced as part of an unveiling of new legislation under BC’s Employment Standards Act, and “establishes a legal framework for regulating tips and tip pooling and protecting workers’ rights with
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Under New Legislation British Columbia Employers Prohibited By Law From Keeping Workers’ Tips
on May 1st, 2019
Bill to Ban Employers From Taking a Cut of Tips Finally set to Become Law in Ontario
on December 10th, 2015
It’s taken five years, four versions of the bill and two MPPs to bring it forward, but tips in Ontario will soon be protected from employer clawbacks. Former New Democrat MPP Michael Prue first raised the issue of employers eating into servers’ tips in 2010. For many restaurant servers, hairstylists, masseurs and others in the
