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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Tom Wall

Gig economy firm under fire for telling restaurants they can avoid UK’s new tipping laws

A tip plate at a restaurant.
A tip plate at a restaurant. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Observer

A gig economy firm has been criticised for telling its hospitality clients they can avoid new fair tipping laws and a forthcoming ban on zero-hours contractors by using its freelance workforce.

Temper Works, which supplies workers to more than 5,000 companies, including Hard Rock Cafe, Alexandra Palace and Claridge’s, is promoting its workforce to restaurants, hotels and bars on the basis that “they are not covered by the provisions of the new [tipping] legislation”.

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