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NEWS RELEASE NDP COMMUNICATIONS ************************* NDP’s Prue to reintroduce bill to protect employees’ tips QUEEN'S PARK – Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue will reintroduce his private member’s bill today to prev

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NDP’s Prue to reintroduce bill to protect employees’ tips
 
QUEEN'S PARK – Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue will reintroduce his private member’s bill today to prevent bar and restaurant owners and managers from taking the tips of employees.
 
Since 2010, Prue has been fighting to protect the hard-earned tips from the hands of bar and restaurant bosses.

“Most people don’t even know that when they leave a tip, the owners of some restaurants and bars take a cut," Prue said.
 
Today he asked the Premier if he agreed that tips should go to the hard working bartenders, servers and dishwashers across Ontario – and not to the owners and management staff.
 
Thousands of bar and restaurant workers have been hoping for this second chance after the government let the bill die before the October election, even though it had the support of all three parties.
 
“Now we have an opportunity, in this minority parliament, to see to it that restaurant and bar owners and managers be banned from taking their employees’ tip money. We have a chance to finally give these workers the protection they so deserve,” Prue says.
 
Later today, Prue is speaking about his proposal at the Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Professional Bartenders.
 
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