When leaving a tip at a bar, restaurant, or coffee shop, would you assume that your money goes entirely to your server?
From the start of this month, workers in the hospitality sector in Great Britain gained legal protection to receive 100% of tips paid by customers in restaurants, cafes, hotels, or other service industries.
However, this newly-imposed law does not apply to Northern Ireland, as employment law is a devolved issue.
Conan Lynch, who works in a bar in Belfast, said his current employer divided out tips equally among staff.
But this is not always the case in other businesses.
"I’ve worked in places where they absolutely rinse you for your tips, and I’ve struggled heavily because of that,” the 19-year-old said.
"If the tills were down at the end of the night, they would use the tips to balance the tills, even places where the managers have lifted our tips out of the tip jar, tips that we’ve worked hard for.”
He said tips were vital on top of a minimum-wage job.
"My wages will take care of rent and things like that, whereas tips can take care of the day-to-day stuff as well as my taxi home, disposable income. That’s what the tips are for.”
Justyna, who works in a bar in Dunadry, County Antrim, said tips were indeed a "top-up to wages".
"It’s very important because waiters and waitresses are working hard, hoping they can get some form of tip. It makes a difference," she said.
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