Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022

Plain-English summary AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

• Employers must fairly distribute tips and gratuities to employees and contract workers; cannot use tips to meet minimum wage obligations.
• Employers and certain businesses must inform the public how tips are handled—through notices or other means.
• Amends three Acts (Payment of Wages 1991, Terms of Employment 1994, Workplace Relations 2015) to enforce tip protections and transparency requirements.

Stage timeline

1. First Stage 26th Seanad

   24 Jan 2022
2. Second Stage 26th Seanad

   1 Feb 2022
3. Committee Stage 26th Seanad

   1 Feb 2022
4. Report Stage 26th Seanad

   29 Jun 2022
5. Fifth Stage 26th Seanad

   29 Jun 2022
6. Second Stage 33rd Dáil

   29 Jun 2022
7. Committee Stage 33rd Dáil

   13 Jul 2022
8. Report Stage 33rd Dáil

   13 Jul 2022
9. Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil

   13 Jul 2022
10. Enacted

    20 Jul 2022