❝ What is worrying about the new legislation coming into effect in December is that it might encourage us to think more about tipping and less about the minimum wage (via IrishTimesOpEd)
. While we have imported a system which allows people to work for under minimum wage, the minimum wage is itself, when adjusted for inflation, dropping. Thus we are making great strides towards increasing inequality.
We are talking about tipping while most people on minimum wage don’t get tips anyway . The amendment of the Payments and Wages Act is not actually the sort of change we need to see even if it has an immediately positive impact. While it may enact a kindness upon service staff we need to consider the meaning of tipping and then ask the question about this legislation: who is it for?
The main thrust of this amendment is towards increasing transparency for consumers – customers must know exactly where their money is going. In this sense it is a provision for consumer rights and consumer control. Consumers may now feel more comfortable that they are spending their money as they choose to spend it.
I’m not so sure this law is about safeguarding workers’ rights. It feels more like a matter of safeguarding capitalism, like continuing to bind individualism to consumerism. Consumers are assured that money remains a tool for self-expression, not to mention for disciplining workers: I like you, I don’t like you, I am good, I am rich, you are bad, you have pleased me.
Let us just be wary as the Silicon Valley moguls dictate more and more of not just how our country is laid out but also how we think about labour. Let us be wary as owls.
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