But the prices are already too high because of the expected tipping? Are you counting on people to eat at the restaurant because they didn’t expect to pay more and you can secretly price gouge them at the exit?
If anything the total expected price for a meal will come down because servers will be paid the fair market rate for their labour and not the current guilt trip percentages… the rise in prices won’t exceed the savings from not tipping.
In New York, which the article is about, the hourly wage for tipped employees is only $2.70 less than usual. So if a server waits on 5 tables an hour, each table only needs to tip $0.54 per hour to make up for the “lost” wage. Anything extra is just voluntarily financing the server’s fancy new handbag or iPhone. And in New York, like most places now, the employer is required to make up the difference in their pay if they didn’t get enough tips, so even if you don’t tip you’re not taking anything for free… the employer has to cover it.
Wait staff are assholes thinking they can guilt trip people to hand over extra money for free when they’re simply doing their job. Doubly so when they aren’t even sharing the tips with the kitchen staff who are doing the real work.
No it’s not. The only one taking advantage of workers is the restaurant owner.
If tipping is optional, why the hell would anyone “choose” to pay more? Imagine if I sold you a phone and said you can buy this phone for $500 or you can optionally pay an extra $100 and get literally exactly the same product. That’s tipping.
If tipping is mandatory, then make it clear beforehand that there is a mandatory fee and how much it is.
I’m in Tokyo and pay $55 for 10 gigabit symmetric with unlimited bandwidth… wth Canada
I don’t expect Canada to have the fastest speeds way out in the countryside, but for the major cities there are no excuses.
The Carney government is responsible for Ontario court decisions in response to a case brought against one of Doug Ford’s provincial laws?
Well, sure, okay, sorry my wording was bad. I wanted to clarify because your comment might sound to readers like it’s not possible. The law doesn’t provide for revocation today, but it easily could do tomorrow, if parliament wills it.
There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.
There is. Parliament has the right to control how citizenship is obtained and lost, it’s governed by federal law. If Alberta actually passes a referendum and gets it past the clarity act, you can expect that Canada will be looking into updating the Citizenship Act. They can create whatever legal mechanism they want as long as they don’t leave people stateless or apply it in a way that is unjust (according to the supreme court and constitution).
It would be a huge legal battle but it’s something that the federal government will hold over the province in a secession negotiation, and the final settlement between Canada and Alberta would include an agreement about how to handle citizenships.
I don’t think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.
We can revoke citizenship if parliament changes the Citizenship Act as part of a secession negotiation. The supreme court will put constitutional guardrails on it but it’s absolutely possible.
The boring answer is that if a province is going to seceed, it will require a negotiated settlement between the said province and Canada, and such a settlement will absolutely contain agreements around what happens with the citizenships of that province’s residents.
My past few employers have all had similar policies, it’s common in tech. I cannot take any company equipment over the Chinese border and we are strongly discouraged against bringing any personal equipment. The company has special burner laptops and phones for the few cases where we actually need a business trip to China.
This is pretty much how Canadian regulations and regulators work in general. Weak, ineffective, toothless. Canada won’t do anything if it would inconvenience business and land owners. And Canadians, despite saying how much they care, won’t vote for anything that actually costs money.
What, does everyone need to be a mobile security researcher to care about security?
Most people can’t. But they can still choose options that are vetted by security experts in the community, and in the case of GrapheneOS also backed up by leaks from internal docs from Cellebrite, etc.
The main question is how is their security?
If you care about the sunlight then you don’t care what the clock says, you wake up with the sun.
Scientists are pretty consistent that changing the clocks is an idiotic idea, but Canadians (like many others) are just stubborn and resist change, and seek out excuses to continue resisting change.
I live in Asia now where they do not change clocks and it is so much better this way.
Oh if that’s that case we should ignore NY and just do it.
Ontario also has this law in place just waiting for Quebec and New York to make the move too.
It would be nice if codeberg supported the FUNDING.yml and had their own way to donate to the open source projects I like.
Who said his mind changed? This “news” is just Ford advising Carney he should do something.
100% written by an LLM. They always use this tone and it’s infuriating.
Computer says no.
I still don’t understand your point at all.
If a meal is priced $50 + a 15% tip is expected, you expect customers to pay $57.50 for the meal.
If you instead eliminate tipping and increase the prices by 15%, your customers will still pay the same $57.50 for the meal. You still have the extra money to pay your servers. How does that lead to fewer customers? They still see the same final price at the end of the day.
The rest of the world operates perfectly fine without tipping and in fact has better service.