WAITERS and waitresses will today press home to the Government a union campaign to ensure staff get 100% of tips left by customers.

A consultation into tips and service charges closes today amid strong evidence that the public want all tips to go to staff rather than counting towards their wages.

Members of Unite from hotels, bars and restaurants will visit the Commons to send a message to ministers that a “loophole” in the minimum wage regulations, which allows companies to use tips and service charges to top up salaries to minimum wage, must be closed and a more transparent tips system enforced.