Petition · past parliament

Pay commission/service charge for hospitality industry if in our normal wage.

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Pay the commission or service charge as part of the wage for hospitality workers. This is taxed by the government and counted as our taxable working wage but not yet paid as part of our working wage for furlough.
This money is valuable and essential for the workers in the hospitality industry to pay bills, rent and credit bills we all may have. Many companies pay minimum wage and rely on the money of service charge to contribute towards paying staff more than that rate.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Consider paying commission and bonus as part or furlough payment: Consider paying commission and bonus as part or furlough payment

Include service charge & tips in income paid by Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Include service charge & tips in income paid by Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

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www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

Timeline

9 May 2020 Petition opened for signatures
1 Jun 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18
Status Rejected
Rejected 1 Jun 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.