TGI Fridays hit with strike ballots over tips and minimum wage abuses
16 April 2018
Waiting staff at two of TGI Fridays restaurants are being balloted from Wednesday 18 April over breaches of the company’s tips and troncs policy and minimum wage abuses.
Unite the union is supporting the workers from the Milton Keynes and Covent Garden restaurants who have decided to ballot for strike action in a wave of rolling strike ballots over the coming months; reportedly because their employer has refused to address their concerns on tips and other issues.
TGI Fridays opened its first UK restaurant in Birmingham in 1986, they now have 83 branches in the UK and this is the first ever strike ballots to hit the American chain.
Last month TGI Fridays were third in the list of firm’s named and shamed by the government for failing to pay workers the legal minimum wage. The company was also found to be using unpaid trial shifts for up to six hours and is also under fire by Unite over its decision to take 40 percent of waiters’ card tips without proper consultation.
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