Requirement to deal with tips, gratuities and service charges Section 7: Enforcement Compensation
Section 27M(1) provides that, where an employment tribunal makes a declaration that a complaint is well founded, it may also order the employer or agent to pay compensation to the worker who has complained to the tribunal. Such a payment of compensation must be a sum which the tribunal considers appropriate to compensate the worker for any financial loss attributable to the breach. However, the compensation payment is not to exceed £5,000 per complainant.
	Subsection (2) makes it clear that an employment tribunal can order a payment of compensation whether or not it has made an order under section 27L. Compensation may, for example, provide a suitable remedy where a particular individual worker has been treated unfairly.