{"id":9585,"date":"2018-05-15T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=c26503fdba2340e75f432a136da6867a"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:35:50","slug":"quebec-restaurant-owners-want-labour-law-reform-to-include-tip-sharing-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/quebec-restaurant-owners-want-labour-law-reform-to-include-tip-sharing-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec restaurant owners want labour law reform to include tip-sharing mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Members of an association representing Quebec restaurant owners are calling on the province to include a tip-sharing mechanism in the province&#8217;s labour code.<\/p>\n<p>They are appearing today before a committee studying a bill that seeks to amend the province&#8217;s labour standards act.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, only waiters receiving tips decide if and how they are divided.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Vezina, a spokesman for the Quebec Restaurant Association, says that means there is a huge discrepancy in the pay between servers and other kitchen staff.<\/p>\n<p>The association conducted a survey last year that suggests wait staff make about $27 per hour versus kitchen staff, who make about $16.<\/p>\n<p>Vezina says restaurant owners are advocating for some flexibility to introduce tip-sharing if it is necessary in their establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Several renowned Quebec chefs are among those advocating for a more equitable distribution of tips among restaurant employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &mdash; Members of an association representing Quebec restaurant owners are calling on the province to include a tip-sharing mechanism in the province&rsquo;s labour code. They are appearing today before a committee studying a bill that seeks to amend the province&rsquo;s labour standards act. As it stands, only waiters receiving tips decide if and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}