IF YOU found out your boss was taking your tips, how would you react?

A waitress from the UK has not only exposing the restaurant she worked at but published her pay slips online to prove her bosses took $1200 worth of her tips.

Emma Smith also claims deductions for errors and tips being reclaimed by the owners of Albert’s restaurant meant staff took home just a fraction of their earnings, The Sun reports.

Ms Smith, of Manchester, was employed for five months at the restaurant before she quit last week over the tip row.

She took her frustration to social media, sharing on Facebook a selection of her pay slips, which she insists show hundreds of dollars deducted from her tips.

The restaurant has admitted keeping some of the tips given to staff but insisted it was no more than 10 per cent.

It also admitted a small number of charges for staff mistakes.

Ms Smith, 27, a former customer service manager, caused a storm on social media with her post, which has already attracted 3800 shares and 2000 likes.

“Albert’s unfairly take tips off their staff to line the owners pockets,” Ms Smith posted on her Facebook account.

“If you’re happy that the majority of your card tips go direct to the company then continue to do so, I just thought everyone should be aware of this. The only tips we actually get are cash.

“I have just left this company as 70 per cent of the card tips and 10 per cent service charges go directly to the owners and are used to pay the salaried staff their wages.

“At the end of every night Albert’s take a percentage of our sales off us. Whether we have actually made the tips or not, they take a cut of everything we have sold from us that day. So theoretically we could end up paying out of our own pocket.

“Then every fortnight we get a cheque showing us how much money we have made on card tips and then it shows the massive reduction that goes to ‘Albert’s house’ and the disheartening figure that we are actually coming away with.”

Pay slips shared in the post show one example of £517.19 ($A918) of tips earned in the financial year but £378.48 ($A672) deducted to “House Didsbury” and another £75.70 ($A134) to “Kitchen Tip Out”.

Another member of staff, who wished to remain anonymous, provided a slip indicating that House Didsbury had deducted £279.10 ($A495) from his tips and, after £55.82 ($A99) was given to the kitchen, he was left with only £6.75 ($A12).

Owner James Ramsbottom said: “I cannot comment on specific allegations as that is now a legal matter.

“However more than 90 per cent of tips earned go to staff on site.

“Very occasionally, staff have been asked to contribute towards mistakes made but this has only amounted, in total, to £170 ($A302) in the last 12 months. Again this system is in place to ensure good service.

“If a server makes persistent errors, it can massively affect service, not just to the table in question, but the whole restaurant. However this is very rarely used and is at the discretion of the manager.”

In 2015, the owner admitted that staff at Albert’s did not get all of their tips.

The company said that some larger parties had a 10 per cent service charge added to the bill and part of that was kept by the company.

The restaurant claimed this was used to pay for “staff welfare items”, such as nights out, food and drinks and training for employees.