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[Cazikins]

So I'm going to the hairdressers tomorrow for a straight forward wash/cut & blow dry.
It will probably take abou tan hour cost about £30'ish .....
So how much should I tip percentage wise? 
Cazi x 

[Joaniepat]

Tipping is normally 12%. I round it up to the nearest quid. (Where do you get a cut and finish as cheap as that? Not London prices I'll be bound!😂)
Hope you look fab afterwards!
JP x

[CLKD]

I think that hair dressers charge enough!  I never tip.

[Minusminnie]

I now pay £30 for a cut and blow dry short hair with a senior stylist in a busy hairdressers in a rural town.
I don't tip regularly but give my hairdresser a card at christmas with some money in and say to keep it for himself which i hope he does. I just don't like tipping each time.
Are tips generally shared or not ? 

[CLKD]

Legally they have to be shared.

Our hair salon has a range of 'stylists' for which 1 pays - the manager charges the highest fee, the senior stylist the next down ......... don't know what the girl with the brush gets paid  . 

Prices went up when the reopened after 2nd Covid lock down. 

[sheila99]

Nothing, I hate the culture of tipping. If they don't think they're getting enough they can put the price up. Money in a card at Xmas may be a good compromise. The shelf stacker at the supermarket may be more deserving of a tip than a hairdresser.

[Pennyfarthing]

Nothing, I hate the culture of tipping. If they don't think they're getting enough they can put the price up. Money in a card at Xmas may be a good compromise. The shelf stacker at the supermarket may be more deserving of a tip than a hairdresser.

That’s how I feel sheila! It would have to be very exceptional service if I gave a tip.  What about bus drivers, librarians, shop assistants etc?  Where do you stop?

I do always leave a generous tip for the chambermaids (or housekeepers as they are called now) when we holiday abroad as they don’t earn much and do a fabulous job.  I did a summer season as a chambermaid when I was a student and it is very hard work!   

[Cazikins]

Well is cost £32.50 & I gave £2 tip & put it straight in her tip box. It is a small local village salon & run independatally.
I was always under the impression that the pay for a hairdresser was quite low compared to other occupations & that's why I tip, sounds like I'm wrong.

Legally they have to be shared.

Do they really? All I can find on line is the GOV advice which is this:
Overview
If you get tips at work they do not count towards the National Minimum Wage. You still have to pay Income Tax on tips and may have to pay National Insurance.

How tips are paid
You could get tips:

directly from a customer in cash or electronically, for example through a mobile app
as part of your pay packet from your employer
through a separate system for managing and sharing out tips at your workplace (known as a ‘tronc’)
How your employer handles tips
The government has a Code of Best Practice on tips that says how your employer should handle them.

Your employer does not have to follow it, but if they do they should have a policy on tips that includes information on:

how tips are distributed or shared
the name of the person responsible for managing tips (if there is one)
if tips paid directly to staff members by customers are treated differently
any deductions taken from tips
what happens during leave, for example holidays, sick leave, parental leave



It'd be really useful/helpful CLKD  if you could post a link or copy/paste like I did above just to clarify how you know this is a fact.

[CLKD]

I watched Watch Dog a few years ago.

[Cazikins]

Keep up girl 

[CLKD]

 

[Minusminnie]

Legally they have to be shared.

Do they really? All I can find on line is the GOV advice which is this:
Overview
If you get tips at work they do not count towards the National Minimum Wage. You still have to pay Income Tax on tips and may have to pay National Insurance.

How tips are paid
You could get tips:

directly from a customer in cash or electronically, for example through a mobile app
as part of your pay packet from your employer
through a separate system for managing and sharing out tips at your workplace (known as a ‘tronc’)
How your employer handles tips
The government has a Code of Best Practice on tips that says how your employer should handle them.

Your employer does not have to follow it, but if they do they should have a policy on tips that includes information on:

how tips are distributed or shared
the name of the person responsible for managing tips (if there is one)
if tips paid directly to staff members by customers are treated differently
any deductions taken from tips
what happens during leave, for example holidays, sick leave, parental leave

In that case i will wrap something eg box of chocolates with a card with money in at Christmas and it can be a personal present/gift to my hairdresser.

[Taz2]

New regulations on the way https://squareup.com/gb/en/townsquare/tip-sharing

Taz x

[CLKD]

In September 2021, the government introduced plans for new legislation around tip sharing that make it a legal obligation for all employers to ensure employees receive 100% of the tips they receive. This is set to enhance the rights of two million hospitality workers across the UK – but what does this mean for you as a restaurant business owner, and what does this mean for the future?
. tnx Taz.