tronc

This is known as a tronc and the person who shares out the tips is called a 'troncmaster'.

FreakyTrigger 2008

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has given an important judgment about tips, service charges and the national minimum wage: it has ruled that restaurant employers who make inadequate wages up to the minimum wage level by redistributing service charges and tips to waiting staff via a "tronc" system act unlawfully.

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But HMRC had argued that payment via a 'tronc' does not count towards the national minimum wage.

This is Money | Home 2009

But HMRC had argued that payment via a 'tronc' does not count towards the national minimum wage.

This is Money | Home 2009

And this happens even though, legally, the troncmaster the person who operates the tronc scheme, whereby service monies are pooled and given out should be separate from the management.

Forget holidays, we have trouble with tipping at home | Ross Raisin 2011

· Qu'en est-il de l'idée d'un tronc commun scolaire international pour aider au dialogue des dirigeants?

Archive 2009-04-10 2009

Initially HMRC lost in the Employment Tribunal - the ET thought the employer effectively controlled the tronc, so that the tronc system satisfies section 11 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998:

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Essentially a tronc works by tips and service charges being collected and then held on trust by a member of staff, who then distributes it to colleagues.

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Further legislation may eventually be needed to take this tronc nonsense off the menu once and for all.

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I'm amazed that chap Martin Couchman told the Indie he think's its perfectly legal to make up the minimum wage through tips: only recently the Employment Appeal Tribunal decided it's not, at least if you use the popular tronc method to do it.

Tipping.... 2008