New Potential Fines for Employers

OFFENCE

Failure to initiate consultations, or failure to supply employees’ representatives, with all the relevant information relating to a proposed collective redundancy.

Failure to provide an employee with a written statement detailing gross wages and the nature and amount of deductions.

Failure to provide an employee with a written statement of the employee’s average hourly rate of pay for any pay reference period within 4 weeks of their request.

Failure to provide a written statement containing the particulars of the employee’s employment within 5 days of the commencement of their employment, without reasonable cause.

Failure to display a tips and gratuities notice relating to contract workers.

Where the customer is led to believe that a ‘service charge’ (or other similar term) will be distributed to employees, the employer shall treat all payments as if such a payment was a tip or gratuity. Failure to do so, carries the corresponding fine.

Failure to provide a statement in writing within 10 days, specifying the total amount of tips or gratuities distributed by the employer for the relevant period both generally, and for an individual employee.