Any employer who—

• (a) fails to pay the wages or indemnity due to any employee within the time prescribed in sections 19, 20 and 21;

• (b) makes to any employee any advance of wages in excess of that permitted under section 22; or

• (c) makes deductions from the wages of an employee other than such deductions as are authorized by section 24,

commits an offence.

Any employer who—

• (a) pays wages, imposes any conditions in a contract of service or makes any deduction or receives any payment in contravention of section 25, 25A, 26, 27 or 28; or

• (b) provides any employee as part of the terms of his contract of service with any amenity or service, or any intoxicating liquor in contravention of section 29,

• (c) (Deleted by Act A1026),

commits an offence.

An employer of a female employee commits an offence if the female employee is employed contrary to section 34, 35 or 36.

Any employer who—

• (a) fails to grant maternity leave to a female employee employed by him and entitled thereto under Part IX;

• (b) fails to pay the maternity allowance to a female employee employed by him and entitled thereto under Part IX, or to her nominee, or to her personal legal representative;

• (c) fails to pay maternity allowance in the manner prescribed in section 38; or

• (d) contravenes section 42 or 44,

commits an offence, and shall also—

• (aa) in the event of a conviction for an offence under paragraph (a), be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the female employee concerned the maternity allowance to which she may be entitled under Part IX in respect of every day on which the female employee had worked during the eligible period referred to in paragraph 37(1)(a), the payment so ordered being in addition to the wages payable to her, and the amount of maternity allowance so ordered by the court to be paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court; and

• (bb) in the event of a conviction for an offence under paragraph (b), be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the female employee concerned the maternity allowance to which she is entitled under Part IX, and the amount of maternity allowance so ordered by the court to be paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court.

An employer who—

• (a) fails to keep a register required under section 61, or to preserve the register for a period of not less than six years;

• (b) destroys, alters or mutilates the register referred to in paragraph (a), or causes or permits the register to be destroyed, altered or mutilated;

• (c) fails to comply with any regulations made under section 62;

• (d) fails, without reasonable cause (proof of which shall lie on him), to forward to the Director General such returns as are prescribed under section 63 or forwards any of the returns knowing that it contains any false particulars; or

• (e) being an owner of any estate, mine or factory to which section 64 applies, fails to comply with the requirements of the section,

commits an offence.

Any person who—

• (a) refuses the Director General exercising his powers under Part XIV, access to any premises or part thereof;

• (b) assaults, obstructs, hinders or delays the Director General in effecting any entrance into any premises or part thereof which he is entitled to effect;

• (c) furnishes the Director General as true, information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false; or

• (d) fails to produce, or conceals or attempts to conceal any document which he may be required to produce under Part XIV, or hinders or obstructs the Director General in effecting possession of the documents,

commits an offence.

Any employer who prevents or attempts to prevent any employee from appearing before the Director General under Part XV commits an offence.

Any person who commits any offence under, or contravenes any provision of, this Act, or any regulations, order, or other subsidiary legislation whatsoever made thereunder, in respect of which no penalty is provided, shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit.

(1) Any employer who fails to pay to any of his employees wages for work done by his employee on a rest day or pays wages less than the rate provided under section 60 commits an offence, and shall also, on conviction, be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the employee concerned the wages due for work done on every rest day at the rate provided under section 60, and the amount of such wages shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court.

(2) Any employer who fails to pay to any of his employees any overtime wages as provided under this Act or any subsidiary legislation made thereunder commits an offence, and shall also, on conviction, be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the employee concerned the overtime wages due, and the amount of overtime wages so ordered by the court to be paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court.

(3) Any employer who fails to pay to any of his employees wages as provided under section 60D, commits an offence, and shall also, on conviction, be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the employee concerned the wages due for any work done on any such holiday at the rate provided under section 60D, and the amount of wages so ordered by the court to be paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court.

(4) Any employer who fails to grant to any of his employees annual leave or any part thereof as provided under section 60E commits an offence, and shall also, on conviction, be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the employee concerned the ordinary rate of pay in respect of every day of such leave not so granted, the payment so ordered being in addition to the wages payable to the employee for the work done on any such day, and the amount so ordered by the court to be paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court.

(5) Any employer who fails to grant sick leave, or fails to pay sick leave pay, to any of his employees, as provided under section 60F commits an offence, and shall also, on conviction, be ordered by the court before which he is convicted to pay to the employee concerned the sick leave pay for every day of such sick leave at the rate provided under section 60F, and the amount so ordered by the court to be paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by such court.

In any inquiry, investigation, entry or inspection made by the Director General, or by any officer lawfully exercising the powers of the Director General under this Act, any person committing with respect to such inquiry, investigation, entry or inspection any offence described in Chapter X of the Penal Code shall on conviction be punished as prescribed in such Chapter.

(1) The Director General, Deputy Director General or any officer authorized in writing by the Director General may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, compound any offence committed by a person which is punishable under this Act or any regulation made under this Act.

(2) The Director General, Deputy Director General or any officer authorized in writing by the Director General may, in a case where he deems it fit and proper so to do, compound an offence by making a written offer to the person who has committed the offence to compound the offence on payment to the Director General, Deputy Director General or any officer authorized in writing by the Director General, as the case may be, within such time as may be specified in the offer, of such sum of money, as may be specified in the offer, which shall not exceed fifty per centum of the amount of the maximum fine (including the daily fine, if any, in the case of a continuing offence) to which the person would have been liable if he had been convicted of the offence.

(3) An offer under subsection (2) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed, but before any prosecution for it has been instituted, and where the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or within such extended period as the Director General, Deputy Director General or any officer authorized in writing by the Director General may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time thereafter against the person to whom the offer was made.

(4) Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (2)—

• (a) no prosecution shall thereafter be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made; and

• (b) any book, register or document seized in connection with the offence shall be released immediately.

(5) Any moneys paid to the Director General, Deputy Director General or any officer authorized in writing by the Director General pursuant to subsection (2) shall be paid into and form part of the Federal Consolidated Fund.

Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate, partnership, society or trade union—

• (a) in the case of a body corporate, any person who is a director, manager, or other similar officer of the body corporate at the time of the commission of the offence;

• (b) in the case of a partnership, every partner in the partnership at the time of the commission of the offence; and

• (c) in the case of a society or trade union, every office-bearer of the society or trade union at the time of the commission of the offence,

shall be deemed to have committed the offence and may be charged jointly or severally in the same proceedings as the body corporate, partnership, society or trade union.