Only restaurants, hotels with collective agreements allowed to impose service charge


Datuk Seri Alias Ahmad

PUTRAJAYA: Effective Monday, restaurants and hotels will not be allowed to impose service charge unless they have employer-employee collective agreements in place.

Domestic Trade and Consumerism secretary-general Datuk Seri Alias Ahmad said the instruction is temporary, until the Government figures out a way to regulate the collection of service charges.

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